Bringing Rocks To a Gunfight

In his Easter address on Sunday, Pope Francis called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 17 unarmed Palestinian protesters were killed by Israeli snipers at the Israeli-Gaza border.

Francis called for "reconciliation for the Holy Land, also experiencing in these days the wounds of ongoing conflict that do not spare the defenceless." 

Defenseless Palestinians

More Defenseless Palestinians

The pope made his comments in his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica to tens of thousands of followers in the flower-bedecked square below where he earlier celebrated a Mass.