As hostility rages between Israel and Palestinian militants, Pope Francis has called for an end to the attacks.
However, he refrained from directly mentioning the Gaza Strip or the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which launched a significant surprise assault on Saturday.“I follow with apprehension and pain what is happening in Israel. I express my solidarity with the families of the victims,” he told crowds after his traditional Angelus prayer.“I pray for all those who are living through hours of terror and anguish. May the attacks and the weapons cease, I beg you.
“This victorious operation, which will facilitate and accelerate the collapse of the Zionist regime, promises the impending destruction of the Zionist regime,” said Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.“I am congratulating this great and strategic victory, which is a serious warning to all compromisers in the region,” he added in a letter to Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Saturday.
At the time, Raisi said Israel was seeking to normalise ties with more Arab and Muslim countries “to discourage young Palestinians from liberate the occupied territories”, according to the Iranian presidency.
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