Rome, 18 July (LaPresse) – ‘It is time to end this massacre.’ Pope Leo XIV said this, according to Vatican media reports, during a phone call to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who entered Gaza with the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, with hundreds of tonnes of humanitarian aid the day after the Israeli attack on the only Catholic parish in the Strip, which left three dead and 11 wounded, including the parish priest, Don Gabriel Romanelli. ‘On our way to Gaza, right on the border,’ Cardinal Pizzaballa told Vatican media, "while the Greek Orthodox patriarch and I, together with our delegation, were travelling to Gaza for a visit of solidarity to the parish and the families of the victims and the entire community, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV called to express his closeness, his affection, his prayers, his support and also his intention to do everything possible to achieve not only a ceasefire but an end to this tragedy." Pope Leo, the patriarch reported, ‘repeated several times that it is time to end this massacre and that what has happened is unjustifiable and that we must ensure that there are no more victims.’