Pope Calls Israeli Bombing of Gaza Schools ‘Ugly’
Pope Francis on Friday decried the deaths of Palestinian children in Israeli regime military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
He made the remark on the flight back to Rome from Singapore.
Speaking in a press conference with journalists after a demanding 12-day tour across Southeast Asia and Oceania, the pontiff said he speaks on the phone with members of a Catholic parish in Gaza "every day" and "they tell me ugly things, difficult things".
"Please, when you see the bodies of killed children, when you see that, under the presumption that some guerrillas are there, a school is bombed, this is ugly," the 87-year-old pontiff said. "It is ugly."
The pope, who has supported calls for a ceasefire in the conflict, said "sometimes I think it's a war that is too much, too much".
The United Nations said earlier this week that the war has left Gaza's economy "in ruins".
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The pope spoke about a range of other issues during the 40-minute press conference. He criticized both former US president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris' policies, and said U.S. Catholics would have to "choose the lesser evil" when they vote in November, without elaborating.
Source: Reuters
