Pope Leo XIV has called for sufficient humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza, where humanitarian agencies say a total blockade has sparked critical food and medicine shortages, AFP reports.
“The situation in the Gaza Strip is worrying and painful. I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid and to put an end to the hostilities, the heartbreaking price of which is paid by children, the elderly, the sick,” the pope said during his first weekly general audience.