Pope criticizes the Zionist entity for the second time, calls it “cruelty against children”

2024-12-25 11:26

Pope Francis condemned the cruelty of the Israeli raids on Gaza, saying, “And with pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. What cruelty.”

This was the second criticism directed at Israel by the Pope, who noted after his weekly Angelus prayer, that “the Israelis did not allow the Patriarch (of Jerusalem) to enter Gaza as they promised. Yesterday, children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war.”

The anger of the Israeli authorities was evident in a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, which said that the Pope's statements were “disappointing” and they accused him of double standards. 

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