According to a Vatican statement, Pope Francis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone conversation on Thursday about the war between Hamas and Israel, in which they mentioned “the tragic situation in the Holy Land.”
During the call, at the Turkish leader’s initiative, the pope “recalled the position of the Holy See and hoped that a two-state solution and special status for Jerusalem could be achieved,” the statement said.
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According to a Vatican statement, Pope Francis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone conversation on Thursday about the war between Hamas and Israel, in which they mentioned “the tragic situation in the Holy Land.”
During the call, at the Turkish leader’s initiative, the pope “recalled the position of the Holy See and hoped that a two-state solution and a special status for Jerusalem could be achieved,” the statement said.
The bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel on October 7 left more than 1,400 people dead and 224 kidnapped in the area, according to Israeli authorities.
According to Hamas, more than 7,000 people, including nearly 3,000 children, were killed in Israeli retaliatory attacks in the Gaza Strip.
The Turkish presidency reported in another statement that Erdogan declared that “the Israeli attack on Gaza (…) has reached the level of a massacre and that the international community’s silence on what is happening is a disgrace to humanity is.”
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Erdogan added that peace “will only be possible through the creation of an independent, sovereign and geographically integrated Palestinian state according to the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital,” according to the same source.
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