Turin/Milano- Solidarity activities with the Palestinian people in Italy continues, creatively and remarkably, to raise the collective awareness and pressure the Italian government, to put an end to the starvation war led by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip.
Italians are used to traveling, whose annual holidays did not prevent them from programming part of their time to organize and attend solidarity activities with the women in Gaza, but many of them have dyed their summer vacations in the nature of commitment to the Palestinian issue in their activities and mobilization, as is the case of many students in Turin.
“We are trying to make people feel the pain and suffering experienced by the Palestinians. When people are constantly exposed to what looks like an information bombing, it becomes necessary to move live pronouns to correct the information,” says Vitorea, a twenty -year -old student, from a tent similar to an operating room in the Biasa Castello Square in Turin.
Camp of sit -in and awareness
Vitamoria is one of the leaderships, accompanied by a group of students, to establish a sit -in camp that has continued since the beginning of the summer with Gaza, with the aim of educating and informing citizens of information about the reality of the situation there, starting from the center of Turin, to the symbolism of the place where the Italians united the 19th century, hoping to unite the Italian public opinion on the word “one man: the starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza” adds, adds Vitia.
The sit -in youth raises the attention of passers -by by organizing awareness and news activities, through the Palestine Open Library for the fans of reading in the Castello Square, in addition to bilateral and group discussions known as the Palestinian issue, and open -air technical workshops.
The sit -in sews the Palestinian flag with their hands, and people get around, so that the questions flow, so Vitoria and its friends narrate the shadow of citizens with certain and historical information about Palestine, we will get it from the books, or the English channel Al -Jazeera.
Maryam, Italian -Moroccan, with brown skin, and frizzy hair, as many young people who pass daily from Castello Square, was stopped by tents one day and youth episodes circulating talking about the Palestinian issue.
And the twentieth says: “I stopped out of curiosity to listen to what they were saying, and to understand what is happening. While standing there, the speech pulled me, so I volunteered and helped to stick some papers on the ground, in which people write messages addressed to the Palestinians and the Italian government, then I found myself, day after day without realizing, I spend with them all the afternoon.”
Despite the harassment
As for Katlin, an Italian young man, the camp opened the opportunity to approach what is happening in Gaza and became a volunteer, and he says: “I started supporting this issue, because I realized that there are really children and people who are much less fortunate than those we see around us.”
“I think we are contributing to educating people, many of them stop to talk to us, or read the information and watch the pictures, and this creates a kind of awareness, and from that people actually began to provide support and assistance to the invading people.”
Likewise, Torrai, a new student in Italy, is coming from Ghana and famous among the protesters with his dysfunction and daily presence, says – the grateful smile – to Al -Jazeera Net, “The students here are packed to serve the Palestinian issue, by providing the necessary information about what is happening in Gaza, despite the harassment and pressures from each other, but they are still steadfast, today is the fifth day in a row, it is great.”
Serena, another Italian young woman, is one of the protesters who met Al -Jazeera Net, confirming that the time you spend in Castillo Square is of great importance, because “whoever wants to educate or look at what is going on, often suffices with the information he gets transient through Instagram and others, without deepening the search or returning to real sources, and so they risk falling into a kind of social anesthesia here: Decree and address credible information. “
August program
The support of Italian society, individuals and groups, extends to stop the policy of starving the Palestinians in Gaza, over the entire Italian peninsula, and the most prominent of its organization is a meeting entitled “Zionism in our home” on Monday in the city of Rego Emilia, and discusses the link between the Israeli occupation and local cooperatives in Italy, with the participation of journalists and activists in the boycott movement “BDS”.
After that, on August 8, the city of Al -Grayu in Sardinia will host its slogan “After Silence”, interspersed with a technical party to support Palestine and legal interventions.
On August 20, an important meeting will be held in the Valdizi Temple in the city of Tourei Pelici, entitled “Time is now … looks at Palestine”, with the participation of prominent personalities like the former deputy in the European Parliament and the President of the Association of Palestine Association, Clawza Morganini, and Professor from the Faculty of theology in Rome, Eric Novky, and the evening will be opened with a music party for the choir of friends For Josepel and Speachwals.
On August 6, Rome embraces a pause for women, entitled Women for Gaza, while in Turin on September 10, a demonstration in a public yard by the Free Turin Group of Palestine, and the events will be concluded on 15 next month with a photo and interventions exhibition in the city of Cagliari organized by student and cultural societies.
The momentum continues with a group of the cinematic evening, in the open air, for the presentation of films on the Gaza Strip, followed by discussions, including those that will be organized in Bologna, on Monday, under the supervision of Ya Basta Bologna, then stances and protest marches in several major Italian cities, such as Rome, Milan and Torino, organized by associations and coordination of local civil society.
separation
These initiatives by the Italian civil society to stop the starvation of Gaza call for understanding and analysis, given the Italians’ association with the heritage of the resistance and defending their dignity when the fascism surrounded them, until the song “Without Chao”, the Italian, became synonymous with resistance.
In the context, the academic at the University of Cavoskari, Venice, explains Francesco Fakiano, to Al -Jazeera Net, “As you know, Italy is a country with a strong civil society, active, and organized, but it is very far from Parliament. Italian civil society, for years, does not find real representation within Parliament due to complex political mechanisms, there is a clear separation between official policy and what citizens practice on earth through organizations through organizations Qaeda.
Fakiano -a specialist in anthropology (the study of human science) dignity and protest movements, stresses that “the reaction of Italian civil society to what is happening in Palestine is not new, but rather a continuity of long -term human support, even if the voices of collective actors, especially in the last two years, have never disappeared, even before October 7.”
In response to a question about the impact of solidarity activities with Palestine on the options of the Georga Meloni government? Vaquiano replied in the negative, because “the government and parliament are far from this civil society, as they are two of the majority of the Italians: who are in reality, do not belong to this civil society, which is an extension of the left, but it has no parliamentary representation.”
On the extent of the impact of the distinguished protest movements in directing attention to the Palestinian issue, the academic Fakiano stressed that he does not wait for anything from the Melonian government, and says: “What I am waiting for, that the voice of civil society becomes higher and stronger, and to be heard more, despite the media controlled by the capital and the government.”
Fitness and humanity
For his part, civil activist Mohamed Shaheen, one of the most prominent organizers of stops and marches supporting Gaza in Italy, attributed the continuous excellence and creativity of solidarity events with Palestine in Italy, to “the common sense that sees injustice, and moves to support the oppressed, because it realizes that silence from the oppressor makes him persist and hurt others, so the standing of Italians demonstrators in the face of injustice is a defense The oppressed and themselves also. “
Shaheen also considers pure humanitarian demonstrations, citing his conversation with Al -Jazeera Net, with one of her distinctive slogans: “Restamo Ummani” and means “Let’s keep human beings.”