2023-10-08 16:55:22
Pope Francis asked today “let the gun attacks stop, please” in Israel and Palestine, at the end of the Angelus prayer in the Vatican, where he showed his “pain” because “violence has exploded” causing “hundreds of deaths and injuries.”
“The attacks of weapons must end, please,” the pontiff urged before the more than 10,000 faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square to listen to him, because “terrorism and war do not lead to any solution.”
After the rocket attack and raids launched this Saturday by Hamas, at least 600 people have died and more than 1,800 have been injured in Israel, which has responded with a strong air offensive that leaves 370 Palestinians dead in Gaza, as well as close to 2,000 injured.
“I follow with apprehension and pain what is happening in Israel, where violence has exploded even more fiercelycausing hundreds of deaths and injuries,” Francis said at the end of his Sunday prayer, when he wanted to show his “closeness to the families of the victims.”
And he assured that he prays “for them and for all those who are experiencing hours of terror and anguish.”
Then he asked “please” for an end to the attacks of weapons “and for it to be understood that terrorism and war do not lead to any solution, only to the death and suffering of so many innocents. War is a defeat, every war It’s a defeat.”
A poster asking for peace in San Pedro Square, this Sunday. Photo: Reuters
“Let us pray for peace in Israel and Palestine,” he concluded.
With agency information
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