Rome Newsroom, Oct 9, 2023 / 08:45 am
After Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel this weekend, the Vatican’s secretary of state commented on how the violence could jeopardize the potential for a diplomatic rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel amid talks to establish formal relations.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin spoke of the unfolding war in Israel at a seminar in Tuscany on Sunday, saying: “The world seems to have gone crazy; it seems that we rely only on force, violence, and conflict to solve problems.”
“We don’t know how it will evolve and how it will end. What is happening is beyond the imaginable,” Parolin said in a video interview with “Il Regno” in Camaldoli, Italy, on Oct. 8.
The cardinal also expressed disappointment that the violence has “endangered the fragile hopes for peace that seemed to emerge on the horizon even with the agreement with Saudi Arabia,” according to Vatican News.