Italy-Holy See: Parolin, Israel stop, too many dead - last hour. Those who ask Israel to defend itself "is a general voice, that we cannot continue like this and we need to find other ways to solve the problem of Gaza" Vatican Secretary of State said this at the end of the traditional bilateral meeting between Italy and the Holy See on the occasion of the anniversary of the Lateran Pacts.

"With 30 thousand deaths it is not", Parolin said of Israel's right to defense which was invoked to justify this operation.