Italian 5-Star Movement (M5S) expressed dissatisfaction with the Meloni government’s policy on the Israel-Hamas war.
M5S leader Giuseppe Conte, who led two separate governments between 2018 and 2021, stated that Italy’s abstention at the UN General Assembly vote in May on Palestine’s bid for UN membership was “shameful.”
With its conduct, the government proved that it remained indifferent to what was happening in Gaza and Rafah, Conte argued. He stressed that at least 35,000 Palestinians had been killed since the war broke out on October 7. He also noted that despite Israel’s right to self-defence, “what is going on is not acceptable.”
There is no need for you to be a jurist and know about international humanitarian law to find this unacceptable.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) accused Israel of “genocide.” A January interim order ruled that Isral must take measures to guarantee humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza. Moreover, the chairman of the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s Justice Committee, Cuneyt Yuksel, announced on May 1 that Turkey would formally apply to participate in the South African genocide case against Israel at the ICJ.
The criticism from the opposition movement leader comes ahead of the June 6-9 elections to the European Parliament. In his recent posts on X, 5-Star Movement leader Conte stated that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and other political leaders would “never leave their positions in the government and in Parliament to go to Brussels to represent you.”
For this reason I have presented a bill to ensure that it is no longer possible for members of the Government and parliamentarians in office to stand as candidates in the European elections. Enough with the scam applications.
