'This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to say this because it touches the heart,' Pope Francis says
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“Yesterday, children were bombed,” said the pope. “This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to say this because it touches the heart.” Israel’s foreign ministry said that Israel was defending itself against the cruelty exemplified by Hamas militants “hiding behind children while trying to murder Israeli children,” holding 100 hostages and abusing them.
Francis also said on Saturday that the Catholic bishop of Jerusalem, known as a patriarch, had tried to enter the Gaza Strip on Friday to visit Catholics there, but was denied entry. Israel allows clerics to enter Gaza and “works in cooperation with the Christian community to make it easier for the Christian population that remains in the Gaza Strip – including coordinating its removal from the Gaza Strip to a third country,” a statement from the military said.October 7, 2023
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