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By Stefania Maurizi and Ferruccio Sansa
“He wasn’t a guy like all the others, carefree like us as we sunbathed under our beach umbrellas. I realized that when I asked him to take a photo and he put his hand in front of his face: ‘no, no photos!,’ he almost shouted.” Valentina is a 22-year-old woman from Porto San Giorgio in the province of Fermo, and this is how she describes her encounters with Israeli soldiers in Italy. Yes, because in 2024 and 2025 groups of IDF soldiers have come to the Marche region for what they call a “decompression” period: in essence, after fighting for months, they are sent far away from the war theatre to alleviate their psychological stress.
According to testimony gathered by Il Fatto Quotidiano, they arrive in groups of ten or twenty on missions organized with the help of diplomatic channels or military organizations. Is there an official agreement between Italy and Israel? As we bring Palestinian children to Italy for treatment, are we also hosting those who shoot at them?
