Pope calls for an end to West Bank violence against Palestinians

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition government has overseen massive settlement construction in the ​West Bank that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says ​is ⁠aimed at burying the idea of such a state."I renew my appeal for an end ​to the repeated violence against the Palestinian civilian population in ​the West Bank," the Pope said, without mentioning specific confrontations or attacks.

Pope Leo called on Sunday for an end to violence against Palestinians in the occupied ​West Bank, amid a surge of attacks by ‌militant settlers and a siege in the territory's village of Qusra.