Nobel Prize for the children of Gaza: over 17,000 signatures
The initiative relaunched in *Avvenire* by Professor Mazzarella
The proposal launched by Professor Eugenio Mazzarella in the *Avvenire* newspaper, calling for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to the children of Gaza ‘as a symbol of all the childhoods violated around the world’, has garnered over 17,000 signatures in just over a week.
The bishops’ newspaper has set up an email address for anyone wishing to sign the petition: petizione.gaza@avvenire.it.
As Marco Girardo, editor of *Avvenire*, points out, the proposal had already been put forward about a year ago by the association ‘L’isola che non c’è’ from Latiano, in the province of Brindisi, which presented it to the Senate.
The appeal therefore calls for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to the children of the Gaza Strip, who continue to die even after the October ceasefire — around one a day, according to UNICEF.
The petition has already been signed by, amongst others, 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 Alliance of the Greens and the Left, and the Communist Refoundation Party, represented by its secretary Maurizio Acerbo.
