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We look back over a year of violent conflict between Israel and Hamas; a year of death and destruction, and a year of cries for peace.On the 7th of October, 2023, Hamas militants fired rockets into Israel and stormed Kibbutz border towns, in a violent attack that ignited what has been a ferocious, deadly year.On the 7th of October, more than 1,200 people were killed, the majority of them civilians.
Then, the first appeal to the United Nations. On the 26th of October, represented at the UN Security Council in New York, the Holy See urged Israeli and Palestinian authorities to show courage for peace and work towards a two-state solution.As the end of the month approached, the death toll in Gaza was nearing 10,000.
A month later, Fr Romanelli told Vatican News what he would repeat a year later: Gaza has never truly known peace."They say the war started on October 7th but we've always lived in a climate of conflict. Of course, nothing as tragic as what we are suffering now, but sirens and explosions have always been part of life in Gaza."As the months passed and Christmas approached, the Pope continued his prayers, and his request for them:"At Christmas, let us think of the Holy Land.
Christmas came and went, and Easter approached. Despite the pleas, the bombs kept falling on Gaza, with no ceasefire in sight. The Pope and other Christian leaders repeated their callsfor peace.
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