The UN chief denounces “horror” and “the level of death and destruction without equivalent in recent history”

Jerusalem’s Latin patriarch. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, said on Tuesday returning a visit to the Gaza Strip, that the humanitarian situation was “Morally unacceptable” In the Palestinian territory ravaged by more than twenty -one months of war.

“We have seen men wait for hours under the sun in the hope of a simple meal”reported M^gr Pizzaballa. the highest Catholic authority in the Holy Land. “It is morally unacceptable. unjustifiable”he said, assuring that the Church and “The un chief denounces “horror” “the whole Christian community would never abandon” Gazanis.

Accompanied by his Orthodox Greek counterpart. Théophilos III, he made a rare visit Friday in Gaza, after Israeli fire hit the Church of the Sainte-Famille, the only Catholic church in Palestinian territory, and caused the death of three people. “Three people died in our community. but thousands of people have already died in Gaza”recalled M^gr Pizzaballa, adding that “The whole of the Palestinian people” was affected, both in Gaza and in the West Bank.

Thesophilos 3. m^gr Pizzaballa have met people with emaciated faces, reporting that it was difficult or even impossible to find something to eat in Gaza in recent days. M^gr Pizzaballa added having seen a “Level of destruction” Unprecedented, compared to his last December visit.