Following the recitation of the Regina Coeli on Sunday, Pope Francis denounced violence in the Holy Land, warning that the conflict could deteriorate “in a spiral of death and destruction.”
After seven days of fighting, almost two hundred people have been killed in Gaza, with more than 1200 wounded, according to Palestinian sources. In Israel, rocket strikes from Gaza have reportedly killed ten people.
The Pope lamented the numerous dead and wounded, including scores of women and children. The death of children, especially, is “terrible and unacceptable,” and “a sign that people do not want to build the future, but to destroy it.”
