(ANSA) – TRIESTE, JULY 2 – “While the rest of Europe looked the other way, Italy, and in particular the Burlo Garofolo children’s hospital in Trieste, welcomed the group of eight seriously injured children with their relatives (13 people), coming from Gaza, brought by ‘Save a Child’ on a privately funded humanitarian flight”. The English authorities did not grant visas due to bureaucratic delays; the German authorities were only willing to welcome children without parents or other relatives. This was underlined several times during the charity evening “Nessun dorma”, yesterday, organized at the Mib School of Management to raise funds for prosthetics for the children being treated at the hospital. The children, seriously injured and with various amputations, were hospitalized in various hospitals in Cairo after being authorized to leave Gaza. Thanks to the English NGO ‘Save a Child’ Sally Becker, at the end of May they were put on the humanitarian flight but the English authorities had not granted visas for entry into Great Britain. Becker then turned to the volunteer doctor Marino Andolina who acted as an intermediary with the Burlo Garofolo hospital and with the Italian authorities and the children and their relatives were brought to safety. Yesterday’s evening was attended, among others, by Becker and Andolina and the hospital managers. The evening was characterized by opera arias and songs with interventions and readings by actors. (ANSA).
