{"id":12952,"date":"2025-01-10T05:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=12952"},"modified":"2025-01-10T05:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:11:27","slug":"ramping-up-criticism-of-israel-pope-francis-calls-situation-in-gaza-shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=12952","title":{"rendered":"Ramping up criticism of Israel, Pope Francis calls situation in Gaza \u2018shameful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWe cannot accept that children are freezing to death because hospitals have been destroyed or a country\u2019s energy network has been hit,\u201d Francis said in a yearly address to diplomats delivered on his behalf by an aide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Francis<\/a> on Thursday stepped up his recent criticism of Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza<\/a>, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave \u201cvery serious and shameful\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a yearly address to diplomats delivered on his behalf by an aide, Francis appeared to reference deaths caused by winter cold in Gaza<\/a>, where there is almost no electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe cannot in any way accept the bombing of civilians,\u201d the text said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe cannot accept that children are freezing to death because hospitals have been destroyed or a country\u2019s energy network has been hit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pope, 88, who was present for the address but asked an aide to read it as he is recovering from a cold, also condemned anti-Semitism; called for an end to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts around the world; and expressed concern over climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comments were part of an address to Vatican-accredited envoys from some 184 countries that is sometimes called the pope\u2019s \u201cstate of the world\u201c speech. The Israeli ambassador to the Holy See was among those present for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis, leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is usually careful about taking sides in conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he has recently been\u00a0more outspoken\u00a0about Israel\u2019s military campaign against Palestinian militant group Hamas, and has\u00a0suggested\u00a0the global community should study whether the offensive constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff in December for that suggestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pope\u2019s text said he condemns antisemitism, and called the growth of anti-Semitic groups \u201ca source of deep concern\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis also called for an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia, which has killed tens of thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy wish for the year 2025 is that the entire international community will work above all to end the conflict that, for almost three years now, has caused so much bloodshed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0pope\u00a0also addressed conflicts in places including Sudan, Mozambique, Myanmar, and Nicaragua and reiterated his frequent calls for action to confront the impacts of global climate change, and the spread of misinformation on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/ramping-criticism-israel-pope-francis-calls-situation-gaza-shameful-rcna186939<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe cannot accept that children are freezing to death because hospitals have been destroyed or a country\u2019s energy network has been hit,\u201d Francis said in a yearly address to diplomats delivered on his behalf by an aide. Pope Francis on Thursday stepped up his recent criticism of Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[9904,58,575,64,893,1115,105,1512,1068,52,933,51,8851,40,3061],"class_list":["post-12952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-criticism-2","tag-america","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-humanity","tag-international-community","tag-israel","tag-middle-east-2","tag-palestine","tag-pope-francis","tag-us","tag-holocaust-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}