Francis does not forget his brothers and sisters who suffer from war, "in Ukraine, Palestine and Israel and other conflict zones". Following the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square as Christmas approached, yesterday the Pontiff called for a strengthened "commitment to open paths of peace”. Once more, the Pope appeals for what is happening in the Holy Land, in the aftermath of the Israeli attack on the Latin parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City that claimed the lives of two women, mother and daughter, Naheda and Samar. The Pontiff is following with apprehension the tragic development of the conflict in the Middle East. "I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza," he said. "Unarmed civilians are being shelled and shot at. And this has happened even inside the Holy Family parish compound, where there are no terrorists, but families, children, sick and disabled people, nuns. A mother and her daughter, Mrs. Nahida Khalil Anton and her daughter Samar Kamal Anton, were killed and other people wounded by sharpshooters as they went to the bathroom. The house of the Sisters of Mother Teresa was damaged, their generator hit. Some people say, 'It's terrorism, it's war.' Yes, it's war, it's terrorism".
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