Pope Francis, who didn't mention Israel by name and said he was speaking in general terms, said that 'the defense must always be proportional to that attack.'
Pope Francis criticized military attacks that go 'beyond morality' after he was asked about Israel 's recent escalation of attacks in Lebanon that targeted top Hezbollah commanders.Francis made the comments while en route home from Belgium when reporters asked him to weigh in on Israel 's airstrike that killed Hezbollah 's longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. The strike in Beirut targeted an area greater than a city block and reduced several buildings to rubble.
'A country that does these things — and I'm talking about any country — in a superlative way, these are immoral actions.'He said that even if war itself is immoral, there are rules that 'indicate some morality.''But when you don't do this … you see the bad blood of these things,' he said.The death of Nasrallah has sent shockwaves throughout Lebanon and the Middle East, where he has been a dominant political and military figure for more than three decades.
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