(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) A man walks by the vandalized “October 7th, Escape” mural by Italian artist aleXsandro Palaombo in downtown Milan, Italy on Monday, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
This picture, released on Monday, October 7, 2024, shows the mural “October, 7th, Escape”, by Italian artist aleXsandro Palaombo. It depicts Vlada Patappov, a Hamas survivor, escaping via beheaded teddy-bears. (aleXsandro Palombo via AP, HO)
MILAN (AP). The vandalism of a mural Monday depicting a survivor from last year’s Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, which killed around 1,200 people in Israel, is an example of the rising antisemitism that has been occurring in Italy in the past year, according the Antisemitism Observatory of Milan.