At the Fan Ceremony, Mattarella on Gaza: "It's hard to see an involuntary repetition of mistakes."

"Errors have also been spoken of in the shooting of ambulances and killing doctors and nurses who were assisting the wounded, in the targeting and killing of thirsty children queuing for water, in the killing of so many hungry people queuing for food, in the destruction of hospitals, including the killing of children hospitalized for malnutrition. It is difficult, in such a chain reaction, to see an involuntary repetition of errors and not recognize a determination to kill indiscriminately. A condition emblematically depicted by the child taken in with his mother in an Italian hospital, after losing his father and nine siblings—all children—in the bombing of his home," said, among other things, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella , speaking at the fan ceremony at the Quirinale .