Published October 22,2023
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Pope Francis on Sunday stated he’s saddened by the assaults on Greek Orthodox Porphyrius Church and an Anglican hospital in Gaza earlier this week.
“I follow what is happening in Israel and Palestine. I express my particular pain and concern, pray, and stand by the hostages, the victims, and their families. I am thinking of the serious humanitarian situation in Gaza. It hurts me that the Anglican hospital and the Greek Orthodox parish have been hit in recent days,” Francis stated.
“I reiterate my appeal for spaces to be opened, for humanitarian aid to continue to arrive, and for hostages to be freed,” the pope added.
Calling for a swift finish to the continuing wars, Francis stated: “War, every war in the world, I am also thinking of tormented Ukraine, is a defeat. War is always a defeat, it is a destruction of the human fraternity.”
At least 471 Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the hospital Tuesday night, in keeping with Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel has denied any duty for the strike, regardless of forensic and circumstantial proof on the contrary.
The hospital is called the Baptist hospital for historic causes, but it surely has been below the Anglican Church, or Church of England, because the early Nineteen Eighties.
Multiple experiences late Thursday stated an Israeli bomb destroyed the Greek Orthodox Porphyrius Church in Gaza City, and killed greater than a dozen individuals and wounded many others.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Qudra stated later that not less than 16 Palestinian Christians had been amongst these killed in direct Israeli assaults on the church.
The battle in Gaza, below Israeli bombardment and blockade since Oct. 7, started when Hamas initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a multi-pronged shock assault that included a barrage of rocket launches and infiltrations into Israel by land, sea, and air. It stated the incursion was in retaliation for the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rising violence by Israeli settlers.
The Israeli army then launched Operation Swords of Iron in opposition to Hamas targets within the Gaza Strip.
At least 4,651 Palestinians, together with 1,873 youngsters, have been killed in Israeli assaults on Gaza, whereas the determine stands at greater than 1,400 individuals in Israel.
Source: www.anews.com.tr