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Health workers in Rome call for aid corridors for Gaza patients
Doctors and nurses gathered in Rome outside Italy’s Foreign Ministry to call for humanitarian corridors to Gaza.
They want the process sped up so sick and injured people trapped in Gaza can leave for care.
The protest focused on the condition of Gaza’s health facilities, which participants described as catastrophic.
Cinzia Pettine, an Emergency volunteer recently returned to Italy, said staff had at times lacked even sterile gauze.
The gathering included a retired doctor from the National Network of Health Workers for Gaza and the president of the Palestinian community in Rome and Lazio.
The corridors would help patients reach medical care outside the besieged territory.
The group’s immediate demand is for Italy to speed up the bureaucratic steps needed to establish them.
Doctors and nurses gathered outside Italy’s foreign ministry in Rome to call for faster procedures to establish humanitarian corridors for sick and injured people trapped in Gaza.
The gathering highlighted what participants described as catastrophic conditions at health facilities in the Gaza Strip.
Cinzia Pettine, an Emergency volunteer recently returned to Italy, said medical teams had at times lacked sterile gauze.
Other speakers included a retired doctor and the president of the Palestinian community in Rome and Lazio.
- Who
- Doctors and nurses, including Emergency volunteer Cinzia Pettine, took part.
- What
- They called for faster procedures to establish humanitarian corridors for sick and injured people in Gaza.
- When
- 9 November 2026.
- Where
- Outside the Farnesina, the Italian foreign ministry, in Rome.
- Why
- To help sick and injured people trapped in Gaza and draw attention to the severe conditions at health facilities.
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- Date
- 9 November 2026
- Location
- Farnesina, Rome
- Requested measure
- Humanitarian corridors for sick and injured people in Gaza
- Speaker
- Cinzia Pettine, Emergency volunteer
What people are saying
Every day is a gamble
There were times when we did not even have sterile gauze.