Olympic truce unfortunately missed opportunity-Sant'Egidio

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 10 - The president of the lay Catholic charity and conflict mediation Community of Sant'Egidio, Marco Impagliazzo, on Satursday lamented the failure to accept the appeal for a truce for the Olympics launched by Pope Francis, saying it was a missed opportunity.
    "It is very regrettable to see how the conflicts have never stopped in this period and have continued and deepened with the tragic consequence of civilian victims", he said after a fresh Israeli air strike was reported to have killed 93 civilians at a Gaza school shelter which Tel Aviv said was a Hamas hideout.
    not mean that we should not continue in every possible way to support the voice of the Pope calling for peace. As the Community of Sant'Egidio we have promoted a meeting in Paris for September with the theme 'imagine peace'. There is so much need to imagine ways of peace," Impagliazzo told ANSA. (ANSA).