The head of the Catholic Church asked “May all hostages be released, that a permanent ceasefire is reached, that the safe entry of humanitarian aid is made, and which fully respects humanitarian law.”
Pope Leo XIV called on Wednesday the full respect of humanitarian law in Gaza, particularly relative to the “indiscriminate use of force and forced displacement of populations”, in a new appeal to the end of the war.
The American pontiff made the appeal at the end of the general hearing in the Vatican City, asking the parts and the international community to commit “End of conflict on the Holy Land, which caused so much terror and death.”
The head of the Catholic Church asked “May all hostages be released, that a permanent ceasefire is reached, that the safe entry of humanitarian aid is made, and which fully respects humanitarian law.”
refer toU “the obligation to protect civilians and the prohibition of collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of force and the forced displacement of populations”, According to the Spanish news agency Efe.
“This is not the right way”
Leão XVI also stated support for the joint statement made on Tuesday by the Greek, Teófilo III patriarchs, and Latin, Perbattista Pizzaballa, from Jerusalem.
The patriarchs asked “The end of the spiral of violence, the end of war, and the priority of the common good of all peoples.” In the joint statement, they asked the Israeli authorities to suspend the plan to take Gaza and transfer the city’s population to the south of the Gaza Strip.
“This is not the right way. There is no reason to justify the deliberate and forced massive displacement of civilians,” the ecclesiastical authorities said in a statement.
They also announced that the clergy and nuns in Gaza decided to stay and continue to take care of all the people who found refuge at the facilities of the Christian churches.
More than 300 people died by hunger and malnutrition in Gaza since it started from the offensive Israeli
The ongoing war in Gaza was triggered by the attack of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused about 1,200 dead and 250 hostages.
The Israelite offensive that followed in the Gaza Strip provoked More than 62,700 dead so faraccording to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, considered reliable by the UN.
After almost three years of war, the in the north of the territory, what happens for the first time in the Middle East.
The Gaza Ministry of Health announced this Wednesday The death of 10 more people on Tuesday for hunger and malnutrition, including two children, reported EFE.
With these new deaths, the Hamas Government Ministry has raised to 313 the total of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza since the Israeli offensive, among them 119 children began.
Most deaths due to malnutrition and hunger have occurred in the last two months after an almost total blockade to enter the entrance of food and drugs by Israel, which controls all accesses.
