Pope Leo XIV appealed to allow a decent amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza and to end hostilities.
The Pope said that the terrible price of hostility is paid by children, the elderly and the sick.
"The situation in the Gaza Strip is increasingly worrying and difficult," the pope said during his regular Sunday general audience in St. Peter's Square, the first since his election, AFP reports.
His appeal came at a time when the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders accused Israel of allowing a "ridiculously insufficient" amount of aid into Gaza compared to the needs in the territory, just to avoid being accused of starving the population, Radio Free Europe reports.
On May 11, the Pope already stated that he was deeply saddened by what was happening in Gaza and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities, for humanitarian aid to be delivered to the exhausted civilian population, and for all hostages to be released, AFP reports.
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