24\/07\/2025<\/p>\n
A few days after the latest statements by United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, who denounced the moral and political unsustainability of the situation in Gaza, we join those who are strongly calling for an end to this spiral of violence and destruction. It is no longer a matter of interpretations, analyses, or conflicting narratives. It is a matter of humanity and responsibility, as well as law.<\/p>\n
What is happening is plain for all to see. And it is now clear, even to those who have so far chosen to remain silent or cautious, that we are facing an escalation that is overwhelming all limits. As LINK 2007, a network of organisations engaged in development cooperation, we are used to interpreting complexity. But complexity can never be an excuse for inaction. Faced with evidence of suffering and systematic violations of the law, any hesitation becomes complicity.<\/p>\n
Today, what is at stake is the residual credibility of international institutions, of the principles that Europe claims to represent, of law as an instrument of peace and not as empty rhetoric.<\/p>\n
As civil society, we will continue to play our role: building, proposing, connecting. It is our duty to clearly distinguish between what stands for dignity and life and what denies it. We urgently call on italian and european institutions to do the same.<\/p>\n
The time for diplomatic caution cannot be endless if it fails to prevent more casualties, more destruction, more hatred.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Italian government can:<\/p>\n Every additional day without a clear stance is, in fact, a day in which we end up supporting the agenda of those who perpetrated the massacres of 7 October and those who are carrying out an action that many, with increasing authority, define as an ongoing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n All this while the gap between proclaimed values and concrete choices widens. And it is in that gap \u2013 made up of positions that are always too timid and inadequate in the face \u00a0of the ongoing tragedy \u2013 that trust is lost, democracy is eroded, and any remaining hope is extinguished.<\/p>\n Not only for the civilians of Gaza, but for all of us.<\/p>\n\n