Rome, 7 October (LaPresse) – "The horror and condemnation, publicly and repeatedly expressed, for the cruel and unacceptable violence of Israel's weapons – which is making the people of Gaza pay an intolerable price in death, hunger and despair, which must be brought to an end, with the need for Israel to fully apply the rules of international humanitarian law – does not diminish the horror and condemnation of the gruesome and brutal violence perpetrated that day by Hamas." Thus spoke the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. 'What is happening in Gaza and the different feelings it arouses cannot be conflated with the despicable phenomenon of anti-Semitism, which, particularly in the last century, reached peaks of monstrous atrocity and which today sometimes appears to be resurfacing, based on stupidity and spreading hatred,' added the Head of State.