Peres to Pope Francis: Extremists are the cause of suffering in Gaza

“The residents of Gaza are not our enemies and we don’t want to see them suffer. Gazans themselves did not choose the situations they are currently in,” Peres told the Pope adding that, “The purpose of our work is to put an end to the tactics which terrorists have developed – rockets in the sky and tunnels under the ground. In recent days Israel has discovered two underground tunnels which allowed terrorists to reach into the heart of towns and kill civilians indiscriminately…

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