Pope Francis condemned the growing “death spiral” between Israelis and Palestinians

At today’s Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis referred to the recent increase in violent clashes in the Middle East and urged both the states of Israel and Palestine and the international community to seek “without delay other avenues that include dialogue and the sincere search for peace.” The spiral of death that increases day by day only extinguishes the few flashes of trust that exist between the two peoples,” said the Supreme Pontiff in St. Peter’s Square. that have been under Israeli military occupation for decades.” It is with great sorrow that I learn of the news coming from the Holy Land, in particular of the death of ten Palestinians, including a woman, killed dead during Israeli military anti-terrorist actions in Palestine and of what happened near Jerusalem on Friday night,” Francis said.The request of the highest reference of the Catholic Church was given after ten Palestinians lost their lives on Thursday after an Israeli attack on a city. of the West Bank. In response, there were several Palestinian attacks that killed seven civilians on Friday night near a synagogue in Jerusalem.

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