Pope calls for Gaza ‘genocide’ investigation

VATICAN CITY, Holy See – Pope Francis for the first time tackled claims of Israel’s ongoing “genocide” of Palestinians in Gaza in a forthcoming book, urging further investigation into whether Israel’s actions meet the definition.
Titled “Hope Never Disappoints. Pilgrims Towards a Better World”, the book includes his latest and most forthright intervention into the more than year-long war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
“According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of genocide,” the pontiff wrote in extracts published on Sunday in Italy’s La…