Pope Francis on Sunday again suggested Israel was using "terrorism" tactics in Gaza, deploring the reported killing by the Israeli military of two Christian women who had taken refuge in a church complex.
The Patriarchate said an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) "sniper" killed the two women, whom the pope named as Nahida Khalil Anton and her daughter Samar, as they walked to a convent of nuns in the compound of the Holy Family Parish.
The Patriarchate statement said seven other people were shot and wounded as they tried to protect others.
"I continue to receive very grave and painful news from Gaza," Francis said. "Unarmed civilians are the objects of bombings and shootings. And this happened even inside the Holy Family parish complex, where there are no terrorists, but families, children, people who are sick or disabled, nuns."
Francis said they were killed by "snipers" and also referred to the Patriarchate's statement that a convent of nuns of the order founded by Mother Teresa was damaged by Israeli tank fire.
"Some would say 'It is war. It is terrorism.' Yes, it is war. It is terrorism," he said.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the incident was still under review and had no immediate comment on the pope's words.
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-deplores-israeli-killings-civilians-gaza-church-2023-12-17/
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>>1247760 It's as obvious to the world that Israel is a terrorist as it is that the Biden family is corrupt
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>>1247760 It's as obvious to the world that Israel is a terrorist as it is that the Trump family is corrupt
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>>1247760 It's as obvious to the world that Israel is a terrorist as it is that the Netanyahu family is corrupt
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>>1247760 It's as obvious to the world that Israel is a terrorist as it is that the US political system is corrupt
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>>1247760 >IDF snipes two women in a church Oof
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>>1247780 This board is too slow.
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So the pope is woke now? Catholicism is a joke.
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>>1247761 Correct: israel is corrupt
Incorrect: Biden crime family bullcrap (no evidence at all from reputable sources)
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>>1247760 Pope 'colluding with forces of evil' against Jews, South Africa's chief rabbi says
Defending Israel's right to self-defense, Chief Rabbi of South Africa Dr. Warren Goldstein , a ''white'' man in a dark nation, accused the Pope of "primitive pacifism."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVijgOsjLxo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt Anonymous
>>1247760 The US is a terrorist state, Canada is a terrorist state, Australia is a terrorist state, we're all terrorist states! The only difference is that Israel is late to the party.
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The war will finish in genocide. There will be no Palestine, and Israel will move to continue colonizing the areas until nothing remains but perhaps a small and powerless reservation. Time will pass, and people will look back on it as just another simple tragedy. There will be movies made about it, people will shake their heads, but no meaningful recompense will be possible with everyone dead.
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>>1248048 Israel was founded by terrorism, so I'm not sure what "late to the party" is supposed to mean.
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>>1248343 >Genocide the palestinians >Receive international condemnation >US drops their support >Surrounded by muslim extremists Wow what a nice "holy land"
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>>1248393 Two out of four of these things are never going to happen.
I'll leave it to you to decide which ones
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>>1248429 I think you're naive anon. Are you a boomer by any chance?
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almost makes me want to convert, more spine than secularists
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>>1248453 Don't worry the pope will soon do some cucked thing to totally lose your confidence. I half expect him to follow Elon's ass-kissing tour of the October 7th remembrance museum and start wearing a dog tag.
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>>1248441 The US is still buttlicking Israel. Biden has been forced to pretend to ask Israel to murder fewer civilians and the next day the secretary of defense was bootlicking in Tel Aviv about how US support is unlimited and without reservation.
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>>1248548 There's a lot more going on in the background. The US clearly shows that they will not allow israel to genocide the palestinians, imagine if that indeed happen. We're only at 20k so far and support for israel aid already drops to 45%
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>>1248566 >The US clearly shows that they will not allow israel to genocide the palestinians They already have.
They've displaced nearly every Palestinian from the only piece of remaining Palestinian land.
The genocide is done.
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>>1248576 Displaced where? They're clearly still in gaza and the west bank. Also that's not what genocide means
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>>1248576 There's no such thing as Palestinian land. The land they're on used to belong to Egypt and Jordan before they lost it in a war with Israel.
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>>1248610 >There's no such thing as Palestinian land Then what the fuck have the israelis been building a goddam border wall around?
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>>1248602 >that's not what genocide means "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;"
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>>1248620 Its contested land, anon. Also, if Israel wanted to they could have glassed Gaza decades ago. If whats happening in Palestine is genocide then that could be pretty much applied to literally any war involving contested land. Seems to water down the definition to the point of incoherence.
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>>1248622 No, anon.
Israels so indiscriminate with their killing they are literally murdering other shirtless israelis waving white flags and shouting for help in Hebrew.
This doesn't apply to many wars after the 50s or ao
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>>1248630 >Israels so indiscriminate with their killing they are literally murdering other shirtless israelis waving white flags and shouting for help in Hebrew. You're pivoting to a different topic. Can you give any argument as to why what I said was wrong? "But Israel killed hostages!" isn't a response to anything I said.
>This doesn't apply to many wars after the 50s or ao But how? If there are two warring factions, one of which resides on contested land, and the other warring faction kills anybody on the contested land, how does that not perfectly fit your definition of genocide? If your argument is that Israel is committing a genocide then my argument is that they're doing a really shitty job. Hamas has been lobbing rockets into Israel for the past 20 years with Israel having literally every opportunity to turn Gaza into ash yet they haven't. If that's supposed to be genocide then I don't know how literally every occupation in history doesn't fit that same definition.
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>>1248610 Nice British meme you are parroting but in reality Palestine was an Ottoman state for 500 years before the fake state of Jordan existed.
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>>1248641 Palastine as we know it was never an 'Ottoman state', they called the area Filistin as a general name for the holy land. Jews were there before the 400, not 500, year period you are referring to.
Fucking spastic, stop parroting brown talking points.
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>>1248815 Ethnostate racist
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>>1248815 If that's true then why did the jews leave their holy land?
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>>1248904 God told them to fuck off.
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>>1247760 the solution is simple, and no one seems to accept it, one of the two peoples have to move out of the palestine!
