Pope this Saturday denounced the “cruelty” of Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip, after at least 25 Palestinians were killed in a bombing. In response, the Israeli Foreign Ministry accused Pope Francis of having “double standards”.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused Pope Francis of having “double standards” after the leader of the Catholic church condemned the “cruelty” of a .
In this attack, they will have been seven children killedaccording to the Civil Defense of the Palestinian territory.
“The Pope’s comments are particularly disappointingbecause they are disconnected from the real and factual context of Israel’s fight against jihadist terrorism,” the Israeli Ministry said in a statement, adding that “double standards” of the pontiff in relation to Israel must end.
O in the Gaza Stripafter at least 25 Palestinians, including seven minors, were killed in a bombing in Jabalia on Friday.
“Yesterday [sexta-feira] children were bombed. This is not a war. It’s cruel“, lamented the pontiff, in unforeseen statements, released by the Vatican news agency.
“I want to say this because it touches my heart,” he added.
“Cruelty is keeping a hundred hostages for 442 days, including a baby and a child”
In response, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized the Pope and considered that “cruelty is the terrorists hide behind children while trying to murder Israeli children“.
“Cruelty is maintaining a hundred hostages for 442 days, including a baby and a childwho are in the hands of terrorists who mistreat them”, he added, regretting that the Pope chose “to ignore all this and also the fact that Israel’s actions target terrorists, who used children as human shields”.
Francis’ words are “particularly regrettable”he said, because “they are disconnected from the truth and the context of the facts of Israel’s fight against jihadist terrorism, a war on several fronts into which it has been drawn since its beginning on October 7.”
“The death of any innocent person in a war is a tragedy. Israel makes an extraordinary effort to avoid harming innocents, while Hamas makes an extraordinary effort to increase the harm to Palestinian civilians”, he further criticized.
Therefore, “the blame must be attributed exclusively to terrorists and not the democracy that is being defended against them”, he stressed, insisting that “enough of double standards and pointing the finger at the Jewish State and its people”.
