It has gathered over 17,000 signatures in just over a week, the proposal launched by Professor Eugenio Mazzarella in the newspaper Avvenire to request that the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to the children of Gaza, “as a symbol of all violated childhoods in the world.”
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The bishops’ newspaper has set up an email inbox for those who want to sign the petition: petizione.gaza@avvenire.it.
As the director of Avvenire, Marco Girardo, recalls, the proposal was already launched about a year ago by the association “L’isola che non c’è” from Latiano, in the province of Brindisi, which presented it in the Senate.
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The appeal therefore asks to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the children of the Gaza Strip, who continue to die even after the October ceasefire — about one per day according to UNICEF.
Among others, the petition has already been endorsed by the philosopher Massimo Cacciari, the political scientist Francesca Izzo, the sociologist Luigi Manconi, the economist Stefano Zamagni, the secretary of the PD Elly Schlein, the president of the Five Star Movement Giuseppe Conte, Laura Boldrini (PD), Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni of the Green and Left Alliance, the Communist Refoundation Party, through its secretary Maurizio Acerbo.
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