The General Justice and Peace Commission of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (EEC) made a call for the end of the war in Gaza where it denounces “equivalent to ethnic cleaning” and claims “to end the siege of the population.”
The agency dependent on the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral and Human Promotion of the CEE expressed through a communication that “until there is a firm and lasting peace our silence cannot be an accomplice of so many active wars.”
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Specifically, he stressed, citing the UN Human Rights Office, that “the military escalation raises living conditions incompatible with the survival of the Palestinian community, especially the population of Gaza.”
That is why the General Commission of Justice and Peace expressed its rejection of the violent events that have been happening in the area for more than a year: “We do not want it to Attila travel the Gaza Strip, we do not want either bombs or hostages, we want justice and peace for those who live in Israel and in Palestine, we want the full respect of all human rights in all the lands that our Lord stepped on our Lord Jesus Christ.
Consequently, he added that “being indifferent is a total incoherence with our Christianity.”
In the statement, the Church that pilgrims in Spain invited to “imply everything we can in this effort to repair and the demand to stop war as a first and unavoidable condition” while supporting the offer of the Holy See so that “the enemy people are and look into the eyes, so that the people are returned to hope.”
To achieve a situation of peace and justice, this Spanish Episcopal Commission considered that “urgently and unplazable, to end the siege of the population, as well as with the attack on hospitals, with the bombardments of the civilian population, the systematic destruction of infrastructure and neighborhoods, and the denial of humanitarian assistance, which implies a violation of the most basic human rights and international humanitarian law, acts of occupation equivalent to an equivalent occupation acts, acts of occupation equivalent to a cleaning, acts equivalent to an equivalent. ethnic ”.
After claiming respect for human rights, the opening of safe corridors for humanitarian aid and that “all the kidnapped people are released”, a final call was made to “end the war in Gaza, and the reconstruction of infrastructure for a life worthy of the Palestinian people itself in their territory, until consolidating a peace with justice and reparation begins.”
“We are called and summoned to be artisans of peace, convinced that it is God who moves history, although sometimes it seems absent or distant,” before entrusting these calls to Our Lady of Peace.
Nicolás de Cárdenas
Born in 1980, I am a Spanish and journalist’s husband and father with more than 20 years of experience in print and digital media, specialized in socio -political and religious information. I have worked more than 10 years in defense of human rights and I have accreditations in journalism and comprehensive communication. Since July 2022, I am a correspondent for ACI Press and Ewtn News in Spain, covering international events of the Catholic Church.