Vatican newspaper asks: ‘Who decides the life of the children of Gaza?’
August 04, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: In “Chi decide della vita dei bambini di Gaza?” [Who decides the life of the children of Gaza?], a prominent front-page article in the August 1 edition of the Vatican newspaper, a leading Franciscan official in the Holy Land deplored starvation there.
Father Ibrahim Faltas, OFM, the vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, asked, “Who decides on a child’s death? Who refuses to give them food if they’re hungry, water if they’re thirsty, or medicine if they’re sick? ... What drives a human being to attack and destroy the lives of children?”
He added, “What do the concentration camps, monuments to a history that must never be repeated, remind us of? ... Who decides that a malnourished mother must witness the death of her child because she can’t breastfeed him and formula isn’t arriving in Gaza?”
Father Faltas also related “news that shocked me and that I never wanted to hear: many children [in Gaza] try to kill themselves, and often succeed.”
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