Evidence of détente in the aftermath of the controversies between Tel Aviv and the Vatican.
Today, via X, greetings to Christians for a good Lent, which began yesterday with Ash Wednesday, also arrived from the Israeli Embassy to the Holy See.
The embassy actually relaunches and makes its own the words of a post by the mother of one of the Israeli hostages still in the hands of Hamas.
Speaking in the video, not only relaunched by the Israeli embassy but also highlighted on the Vatican information portal, is Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the mother of Hersh, 23 years old, one of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October.
The woman had already wished Pope Francis "a happy Christmas" with a video circulated on December 23, and a month earlier, on November 22, she had greeted him in person, appreciating his "participatory and very compassionate" attitude.
On that occasion Rachel Goldberg had shown Pope Francis the Hamas video in which the boy, who was at the Nova Party on October 7, is seen being loaded into a vehicle by terrorists while he is trying to stem the deep wound in his arm caused by a thrown grenade. by a militiaman.
Today Hersh's mother returns to address in a new video "the Christian friends in the world" who yesterday began the period of prayer leading up to Easter.
"Today - says Rachel in the video - is the 131st day (since the kidnapping of her son, ed.), and it is also Ash Wednesday for our Christian neighbors and friends around the world, who have given so much support to us personally and to the families of the hostages .
So I want to wish you a Lent full of meaning and meaning." Then Rachel concludes: "And we also continue to pray that Hersh and all the hostages will return home long, long, long before Easter, immediately, soon." The last time Hersh Goldberg-Polin was seen in a field shelter where he and other partygoers had taken refuge, trying to escape Hamas rockets and gunfire.
He sent his last messages to his parents around 8 in the morning on October 7th.
Then came the video of the terrorists in which the boy is seen being forcibly transported towards Gaza.
There has been no further news since then.
Once the first phase of horror at what had happened had passed, the determination to seek as much information as possible about their son took over in mother Rachel and her husband Jon.
A room in their house has been transformed into a sort of headquarters where family and friends of other hostages gather.
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