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Israel’s actions in Gaza are unjustifiable, Jerusalem cardinal says
July 22, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: After returning from a three-day visit to Gaza, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem described Israel’s actions there as “not justifiable.”
“As the Pope rightly said—and we continually repeat—all of this is not justifiable,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, told Vatican News.” I’d like to clarify one thing: we have nothing against the Jewish world, and we absolutely don’t want to appear to be against Israeli society and Judaism. But we have a moral duty to express our criticism of this government’s policies in Gaza with absolute clarity and frankness.”
The prelate, who visited Gaza’s Catholic parish from July 18 to 20, said that he was struck by the “enormous expanses of tents that weren’t there before,” as well as “the mutilated children” in hospitals, “blinded by the effects of the bombings.”
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