The Vatican's top diplomat says the Israeli regime has, over the past two years, targeted the defenseless Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip amid the international community's failure to put a halt to the occupying regime’s “ongoing massacre” in the blockaded territory.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state and one of Pope Leo's top deputies, made the statement on the second anniversary of Operation al-Aqsa Flood— a large-scale retaliatory attack by the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on the Israeli-occupied territories on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli regime’s barbaric military campaign in the Gaza Strip has since claimed the lives of thousands of Palestinians, including women and children, razing to the ground the coastal strip’s civil and health infrastructure, also spreading unprecedented famine across the territory.
"The war waged by the Israeli army to eliminate Hamas disregards the fact that it is targeting a largely defenseless population, already pushed to the brink, in an area where buildings and homes are reduced to rubble," Parolin told Vatican's media outlet.
"It is ... clear that the international community is, unfortunately, powerless and that the countries truly capable of exerting influence have so far failed to act to stop the ongoing massacre," he added.
The Vatican's top diplomat also called for global actions against Israeli crimes in Gaza and an end to arms shipments to the regime.
"It's not enough to say that what is happening [in Gaza] is unacceptable and then continue to allow it to happen,” Parolin said. “We must seriously ask ourselves about the legitimacy ... of continuing to supply weapons that are being used against [Palestinian] civilians.” (more...)
Vatican: Israel targeting defenseless Gazans as world fails to stop ‘ongoing massacre’
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