Pope Leo XIV called on Wednesday the entry of a more consistent humanitarian aid in the devastated range of Gaza, bombarded and subjected to a blockade by the Israeli army.
“The situation in the Gaza Strip is worrying and painful. I renew my heart appeal to authorize the entry of decent humanitarian aid, and for the end of hostilities, whose tearing price is being paid by children, elderly and sick people,” the pontiff said in his first general overall hearing.
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The Pope’s appeal coincided with the complaints made by the NGO Médicos Without Borders (MSF) against Israel, a country that accused of letting Gaza “ridiculously insufficient” help, just to “avoid the accusation that he is starving people” in the track.
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For the MSF, the authorized aid of 100 daily trucks, “is just a smoke curtain,” while the siege that Israel imposed in Gaza in early March to force the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to release hostages, “continues.”
On May 11, three days after his election by the Cardinal College, Leo XIV had already declared himself “deeply saddened by what happens in the Gaza Strip” and asked for an “immediate ceasefire, humanitarian aid to the civilian population” and the release of “all hostages”.
