Pizzaballa: “Temporary solutions are no longer enough in the Holy Land”
“What has happened here, in Israel and Palestine, since October 7th is a turning point and nothing can be the same again. What we have understood first and foremost is that we no longer need it, and above all we no longer want to accept it. Our people here no longer want to accept interim solutions. Neither Israelis nor Palestinians.” This is what Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem, said in a video link at the “Paths to Peace” event organized by Communia, Builders of Peace, Association of Common Goods, Ospti, Our Mother Earth, in Rome became . “Until now, we have always tried to postpone final solutions to a hypothetical future that does not exist and has never been achieved. Here is the explosion of October 7th, first with the massacres in the south of Israel and then with the bombings that we carried out “Look at Gaza, all this makes us understand that the population in question is demanding definitive solutions, for solid prospects for the future “to create,” emphasized Pizzaballa.