(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 22 - Pope Francis on Sunday condemned
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, blasting their "cruelty"
during his weekly Angelus prayer.
"With pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children
who are machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals
- how much cruelty", said the pontiff.
++ Children being machine-gunned in Gaza says pope ++
Pontiff blasts 'cruelty'