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In a chilling escalation of state repression, the Italian government has launched a full-scale judicial assault on the Palestinian solidarity movement. The targets are no longer just individual voices of dissent; they are the very infrastructure of Palestinian survival.

This week, under the codename Operation Domino, the Guardia di Finanza and DIGOS orchestrated a theatrical raid across Italy. The operation saw 9 people arrested and 25 individuals targeted in a sweeping investigation, with searches conducted in Genova, Milan, Rome, and other major cities. Crucially, this investigation was conducted under the auspices of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate (DDA). This detail is not a technicality; it is a political statement. By placing humanitarian activists under the jurisdiction of Anti-Mafia prosecutors, the state is deliberately attempting to equate the moral imperative of saving lives with the criminal enterprise of organized crime.

At the center of this persecution is Mohammad Hannoun, the architect and leader of the Association of Palestinians in Italy. For decades, Hannoun has been a reference point for the community, organizing aid for a people being starved to death by an occupying army.

The state seized approximately €1 million in cash, and flaunted this in the press to paint a picture of corrupt criminality. But let us strip away the sensationalism. In a besieged concentration camp where the banking system has been obliterated by Israeli airstrikes, cash is often the only way to move aid. By criminalizing these transfers, Italy is not stopping terrorism; it is stopping bread, water, and medicine.

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