The Vatican said that Israel's response to Hamas is disproportionate and called for a stop to the "carnage" in the Middle East. Israel described as "deplorable" the criticism of the Secretary of State, the Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
An editorial in LOsservatore Romano stated that nothing justifies "this massacre" The Hamas Ministry of Health announced this Wednesday that at least 28,576 people have died in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.