This Friday (20), the Civil Defense reported that 10 members of the same family, including seven children, died in an Israeli air strike in Jabaliya, in the north of the Palestinian territory.
This Saturday (21) he condemned the “cruelty” of an Israeli air strike in which, according to local rescue services, seven children from a Palestinian family died. “Yesterday they bombed children. It’s not war, it’s cruelty. And I want to say it because it is something that moves me”, declared the Argentine pontiff in an audience with members of the Curia, the government of the Holy See. On Friday (20), the Civil Defense of Gaza reported that 10 members of the same family, including seven children, died in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya, in the north of the Palestinian territory.
Wanted by AFPthe Israeli army stated that the balance communicated by the Gaza agency “does not coincide” with information from the country’s military forces. Israeli troops “attacked several terrorists who operated within a military structure” of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and who “posed a threat,” the army said. Francisco, who this week, has already made several appeals in favor of peace in the Gaza Strip, a scene of war since the surprise attack by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
In recent weeks, the pontiff has raised his tone against the Israeli offensive, which, according to authorities in the territory governed by Hamas, has left more than 45,000 dead, most of them civilians. At the end of November, the leader of the Catholic Church stated that “the arrogance of the invader” was “prevailing” over dialogue. He also published a book in November in which he called for a “thorough” investigation into whether the situation in Gaza meets the “technical definition” of genocide, an accusation vehemently rejected by Israel.
*With information from AFP
Published by Matheus Lopes
