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Pope Leo appeals for Israel to allow humanitarian aid in Gaza
VIDEO SHOWS: POPE LEO APPEALLING FOR HUMANITARIAN ACCESS TO GAZA STRIP
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SHOWS: VATICAN CITY (MAY 21, 2025) (VATICAN MEDIA - Access all)
1. POPE LEO ARRIVING FOR AUDIENCE
2. CROWD IN SQUARE
3. AUDIENCE IN PROGRESS
4. POPE GIVING BLESSING
5. CROWD IN SQUARE
6. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) POPE LEO SAYING:
''The situation in the Gaza Strip is increasingly worrying and painful. I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow the entry of fair humanitarian help and to bring to an end the hostilities, the high price of which is being paid by children, the elderly and the sick.''
7. CROWD IN SQUARE
8. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) POPE LEO SAYING:
''We cannot end our meeting without remembering with much gratitude our beloved Pope Francis, who just a month ago returned to the house of the Father.''
9. CROWD IN SQUARE
10. POPE PRAYING
11. CROWD IN SQUARE
12. POPE GIVING BLESSING
13. CROWD APPLAUDING
14. VARIOUS OF POPE GREETING MEMBERS OF CLERGY
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday (May 21) appealed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza strip, calling the situation in the Palestinian enclave "yet more worrying and saddening."
"I renew my appeal … to allow for the entry of fair humanitarian help and to bring to an end the hostilities, the high price of which is paid by children, the elderly and the sick," the pope said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.
The pope held his first general audience, since being elected two weeks ago, at the Vatican on Wednesday.
