The attacks on October 7 in southern Israel are “in no way permissible and we cannot but condemn it,” Cardinal Pizzaballa of Jerusalem writes on LpJ.org (October 24), adding that “there is no reason for such an atrocity.”
With "equal clarity", Pizzaballa declared that the new cycle of violence in Gaza has left more than five thousand dead, including women and children, tens of thousands of wounded, neighbourhoods razed to the ground, and more than two million people without medicine, lack of water and of basic necessities.
“These are tragedies that cannot be understood and that we have the duty to denounce and condemn unreservedly."
Pizzaballa calls for an end to this war, to "this senseless violence” and to end “decades of occupation”.
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