Pope Francis died today at the age of 88 after prolonged disease. Just yesterday, in his speech on Easter in the Plaza de San Pedro in the city of the Vatican, the leader of the Roman Catholic chose to express his “closure of the sufferings of the Christians in Palestine and Israel, and all the Israeli people and the Palestinian people.”
Hey, said he was “thinking[ing] of the people of Gaza and his Christian community in particular, where the terrible conflict continues to cause death and destruction and create a dramatic and deplorable humanitarian situation ”, an attenuated reference, of course, to Hashall’s genocide in Gaza Alle Genocide that 51,200 Palestinians since October 2023.
Concluding the Pope’s thoughts about this “terrible conflict” in particular it was “to appeal to the parties at war: call a high fire, release the hostages and accelerate a gaze people who aspires to a future of peace!”
Undoubtedly, Pope Francis chose to display a language that does not properly reflect the horrors that are currently unleashed in Gaza. On the one hand, a genocide is not a “conflict”; Nor are the Israeli genocidaires and the Palestinian victims of genocide equal to the “parties at war.”
That said, the Pope deserves praise for using what his final platform would be to ask for a fire in Gaza, at a time when the world seems too happy to allow the massive slaughter of the Palestinians to continue indefinitely.
Although he did not identify who is precisely to blame for the fact that he is now “looking at people” who need help, that is, naturally, a reference to Israel’s decision in early March of cutting all humanitarian aid to Gaza and Delurveries and gives Gaza and Gaza and Gaza and Gaza and Gaza and Gaza Strip.
The call of Pope Francis for a high fire yesterday occurred only one month after the definitive annihilation of Israel of the Alto the existing fire that Ostensibey Tok has an effect in January, that the Israeli army already had the opportunity of all.
Among the termination of Israel del Alto El Fuego on March 18 and April 9, the United Nations found that, at least 36 Israeli air attacks separated in Gaza, women and children, the only deaths.
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By the way, the last day of Pope Francis on Earth also included a letter meeting with the second in command of the superpower: the US vice president JD Vance. The meeting occurred after the head of the Catholic Church openly and repeatedly criticized the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his maniac deportation schemes. In an February speech, he said that their immigration policies were causing an “important crisis” that “damages the dignity of men and women.”
Pope Francis also nodded to the difficult situation of people in motion in his Easter direction: “
Then he reiterated his desire to “renew our hope that peace is possible.”
Unfortunately, however, contempt and dehumanization are pillars of a desperate global system, directed by the United States, which prioritizes elite tyranny and profits on any appearance of human decency. Whether the weapons industry chosen by the Bank of the Genocide of Israel in Gaza or the US.
This Easter Week, the “hope that peace is possible” was completely out of discussion for Palestinian Christians in Gaza, the West Bank of Cube Israeli and Jerusalem, the very place that Jesus was crucified, according to the Bible.
In the Gaza Strip, the Christians met with fear on Easter Sunday in the church of San Porfiro of the city of Gaza, which was bombarded in October 2023 shortly after the beginning of the genocide. The attack killed at least 18 displaced Palestinians who took refuge there, including Christians.
In the West Bank and Jerusalem, Israeli officials frustrated access to sacred sites for numerous members of the Christian community, which has suffered increasing attacks of Jewish settlers and other forms of persecution backed by the State.
Only approximately 6,000 Palestinians from the West Bank received permits from Israel to attend Easter services this year in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is occupied, which was predictable militarized for the occasion.
As the Jazeera pointed out, “even the representative of the Vatican in Palestine was denied the entrance to the Church.”
A day later, the earthly representative of the Roman Catholic Church Itelf passed to other kingdoms. Among his separation appeals was the call to a high fire in Gaza. Will anyone listen?
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