The Middle East is in flames due to
the "cowardly" Hamas attack on Israel last Saturday, President
Sergio Mattarella said Monday.
"The Middle East is again in flames, because of the cowrdly
attack that has already succeeded in elevating to unprecedented
levels the spiral of horror and violence," he said at the Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome in a speech marking
World Food Day.
"We are witnessing a worrying increase in international
tensions, and a widening of the fault lines between countries
and between regions of the world, and a return to imperialistic
attitudes and nationalisms," Mattarella went on.
Referring to Russia's use of grain as blackmail in the Ukraine
war, Mattarella also said that it was a "crime to use food and
water as means of war".
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