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ROME – A growing rift between the Vatican and Israel was exacerbated Wednesday, when the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See hit back against a top Vatican official who said the ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza is disproportionate.
On the margins of a Feb. 13 event commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Lateran Pacts, which regularized the relationship between the Holy See and the new Republic of Italy in 1929, Vatican Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, told reporters that it’s time for Israel to change its strategy in Gaza.
Parolin said broad calls for Israel to stop the carnage have become “a general voice, that it can’t go on like this and other paths have to be found to resolve the problem of Gaza, the problem of Palestine.”
He repeated the Vatican’s “sharp and unqualified condemnation” of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and of all forms of anti-Semitism but maintained his criticism of Israeli policy.
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On the margins of a Feb. 13 event commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Lateran Pacts, which regularized the relationship between the Holy See and the new Republic of Italy in 1929, Vatican Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, told reporters that it’s time for Israel to change its strategy in Gaza.
Parolin said broad calls for Israel to stop the carnage have become “a general voice, that it can’t go on like this and other paths have to be found to resolve the problem of Gaza, the problem of Palestine.”
He repeated the Vatican’s “sharp and unqualified condemnation” of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and of all forms of anti-Semitism but maintained his criticism of Israeli policy.
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Israel chastises top papal aide for ‘deplorable’ Gaza remarks
A growing rift between the Vatican and the Jewish community was exacerbated Wednesday, when Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See hit back against a top Vatican official who said the ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza is disproportionate.
