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, the problem of Palestine".
And "the Holy See has said it from the beginning: on the one hand, a clear and unreserved condemnation of what happened on 7 October, and I reiterate it here; a clear and unreserved condemnation of every type of anti-Semitism, and I reiterate it here, but at the same time also a request that Israel's right to defense which was invoked to justify this operation be proportionate and certainly with 30 thousand deaths it is not".
The 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.
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