Avs reports the government to the ICC over Gaza. The Democratic Party says: "Objective complicity."

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" We are allies, but we are not a barracks. This initiative has not been agreed upon with the other opposition parties. We are happy to build every possible convergence if the other forces agree, otherwise we will carry it forward alone as AVS ." Nicola Fratoianni thus explained to Il Foglio the initiative presented yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies: the complaint that the Green Left group will file against the Italian government before theInternational Criminal Court (ICC) for complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza with the Israeli government. "We are witnessing the impunity with which the criminal Netanyahu is using his powerful weapons to raze Gaza to the ground. We do not want our country to be complicit and for Italians to be alienated to death; we would like our government to build dialogue," Green Party leader Angelo Bonelli explained at a press conference. "We asked to revoke the EU-Israel agreement, but they said no. President Meloni doesn't even have the courage to say yes to sanctions. But Italy is a member of the ICC, and the statute stipulates that any complicity must be investigated. We have decided to report the Italian government to determine if there is any responsibility. We want to hold the government accountable." The complaint, as those directly involved emphasized, will not be directed at individual individuals. But inevitably, if it were to succeed, it would open another front in the government's relationship with the ICC, already particularly fraught following the developments in the Almasri case.

In any case, this complaint also affects relations with other opposition forces, given that many of the demands advanced by AVS have actually already been proposed by the broader opposition in Parliament, through specific motions on Gaza. Moreover, yesterday, AVS and M5S parliamentarians donned Palestinian flags in the Chamber of Deputies. Will the Democratic Party support the initiative before the Criminal Court? "We haven't discussed it; if there are any developments, we'll evaluate," say those close to secretary Elly Schlein. But there is certainly a glimmer of support for the demands put forward by AVS within the party. "I don't know the details, and there hasn't been a discussion within the Democratic Party yet, but my personal opinion is that by not terminating the arms memorandum with Israel, by not having implemented an embargo on arms sales, it seems to me that there are objective elements of complicity on the part of the Italian government, also because it hasn't come close to any position expressed by other European governments," reasoned MP Arturo Scotto, one of the Democratic Party members who has traveled to the Rafah crossing on several occasions to monitor the status of humanitarian missions, speaking to Il Foglio. " Then whether the International Criminal Court is the most favorable platform for judging responsibility, I don't know; we'll evaluate. But, and I repeat, the complicity in the atrocities committed by the Netanyahu government is objective ."

Member of Parliament and fellow party member Laura Boldrini agrees. "I can't assess the terms of the AVS initiative because I don't know the details," she told Il Foglio. "I will say, however, that some bodies like the International Court of Justice have already issued precautionary rulings urging Israel to avoid the risk of genocide. The Convention on the Prevention of Genocide also requires all signatory states to do everything they can to ensure that genocide does not occur. Now I ask myself: has the Italian government taken all necessary steps to prevent the genocide we're witnessing in Gaza? Has it terminated the memorandum with Israel, voted to suspend the agreement between the EU and Israel, or applied international pressure such as recognizing Palestine? The answer to all these questions is no. And so I believe," the former Speaker of the Chamber concludes, "that all the elements of complicity are there. And that the Italian government must be held accountable."

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