Israel and the Vatican clashed over comments by the Vatican Secretary of State about the situation in Gaza. The Israeli embassy to the Holy See first said that those comments were "deplorable," but then apologized and said it was an error in the translation.
The Vatican and especially Pope Francis maintain a complex relationship with Israel, with an intense personal exchange of the Argentine pontiff with rabbis and the country's highest religious authorities. The official Vatican News website has also published the position of Edith Bruck, who in 1944 was deported by the Nazi government to Auschwitz.