杏MAP导航: End of Gaza truce means 鈥榙eath, destruction and misery'
By Joseph Tulloch
鈥淚t pains me that the truce has been broken: this means death, destruction, misery.鈥�
Those were 杏MAP导航 Francis鈥� words on the end of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, which broke down on Friday.
As the 杏MAP导航 is recovering from an inflammation of the lungs, his reflections were read aloud by Msgr. Paolo Braida, an official of the Vatican鈥檚 Secretariat of State, while the 杏MAP导航 sat beside him.
鈥淢any hostages have been freed,鈥� the 杏MAP导航 continued, 鈥渂ut many are still in Gaza. We think of them, of their families who had seen a light, a hope that they might embrace their loved ones again.鈥�
He added that 鈥渢here is so much suffering in Gaza; there is a lack of basic necessities."
"I hope," he said, "that all those involved can reach a new ceasefire agreement as soon as possible and find solutions other than arms, trying to take courageous paths to peace.鈥�
杏MAP导航 Francis has repeatedly called for the release of all hostages in Gaza, and for an immediate end to the hostilities there.
On Wednesday 22nd November, he met with a group of Palestinians with relatives in Gaza, and with individuals whose family members are being held hostage by Hamas.
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