The head of the Catholic Church recalled the attack by the Israeli army on Thursday in a Palestinian camp in the West Bank, in which ten people died, and the attack perpetrated on Friday by a Palestinian in which seven people died in front of a synagogue in Jerusalem.
“Since the beginning of the year, dozens of Palestinians have been killed in clashes with the Israeli army,” he said.
The pope asked “the two governments and the international community to find other ways without delay, including dialogue and the sincere search for peace.”
Tension between Palestinians and Israelis
Israeli security forces sealed off this Sunday the family home of the Palestinian who killed seven people on Friday outside a synagogue in East Jerusalem, in one of the first retaliatory measures against “terrorist relatives.”
The Israeli security cabinet had announced on Saturday night that it would take action against “relatives of terrorists who support terrorism.”
Among the measures cited is the possibility of depriving them of social security or taking away their Israeli identity documentation. The latter will be examined by the Council of Ministers.
It had also been indicated that the home of the family of Khayri Alqam, the perpetrator of the attack on Friday in Neve Yaakov, “would be cordoned off immediately before being destroyed.”