Francis also proposed creating a “special status” for Jerusalem and reiterated his call for a ceasefire: “Every war is a defeat.”
Pope Francisco
In the midst of the growing tension in Gaza after the attacks by the Hamas group and Israel’s counteroffensivehe Pope Francisco reiterated his request for a ceasefire and assured that “every war is a defeat“and that “everything is won with peace.” In that sense, proposed that there be “two well-marked States”, in Israel and Palestine and proposed a “special status” for Jerusalem. For the Pope, these are “two peoples who must live together“.
Along the same lines, he warned that an escalation of violence “would be the end of many lives” and added that “in war one slap causes another,” he said in an interview on the Rai network’s TG1 news.
Regarding a possible solution to the conflict, he proposed reviewing “the Oslo Agreement“pointing to”two very marked states and Jerusalem with a special status.
When asked about his communication with the religious who remained inside Gaza once the Israeli attacks began, the Pope said that he calls them “every day.” “There is also an Argentine nun there and the priest was in Bethlehem when all this happened and He could not return because he had gone to Bethlehem to buy medicine. Now he is in Jerusalem, but he cannot enter,” Francisco explained.
In a hopeful tone, he expressed: “I believe that human wisdom stops these things“.
“We continue to pray for the people who suffer because of today’s wars,” he said after saying the prayer from the Vatican on the occasion of All Saints’ Day before thousands of faithful.
““We do not forget the martyred Ukraine, we do not forget Palestine, we do not forget Israel,” maintained and added: “We do not forget so many other regions in which the war is still too strong“he finally remarked in a new message in favor of peace.
Source: Ambito
