The Pope calls for “direct dialogue” between Israel and Palestine to pacify the Holy Land

He Pope Francisco today lamented the violence in the Holy Land and asked the authorities of Israel and Palestine that they resume “a direct dialogue” for “open paths of peace”, after the Sunday Angelus prayer.

“Dear brothers and sisters, it is with pain that I have learned that blood has been spilled again in the Holy Land.”, he said from the window of the Apostolic Palace before hundreds of faithful who listened to him from the Saint Peter’s Square despite the heat

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And I add: “I hope that the Israeli and Palestinian authorities can resume a direct dialogue to put an end to the spiral of violence and open paths for reconciliation and peace.”.

The words of the pontiff, always attentive to the crisis in middle Eastoccur in the midst of a new escalation of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflictwhich this week culminated in a broad Israeli military operation on the refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin.

Source: Elcomercio

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