Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said the humanitarian situation in Gaza is “ever more dramatic and unjustifiable”, stressing she had repeatedly urged Israel to find a way to end the conflict, AFP reports.

“It is a request that I renew today in the face of a humanitarian situation in Gaza that I have no difficulty in defining as increasingly dramatic and unjustifiable,” Meloni told parliament.

In questions from parliament, she was pressed by an MP to condemn Netanyahu’s actions, and asked whether she would introduce sanctions against Israel or recall its ambassador.

Meloni said her conversations in recent months with Netanyahu were “often difficult conversations in which I always referred to the urgency of finding a way to end the hostilities, the need to respect international law, international humanitarian law”.

She added: “We did not agree with several choices, we do not agree with the recent proposals of the Israeli government and we have not failed to say so to our interlocutors.”