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One of the Pope Francis “potemobiles“Transforms into a mobile health unit for children and sent to the Gaza Strip,” Vatican’s official media said on Sunday.
In one of his last wishes before his death, Francis told the Popemobile used during his pilgrimage to the Holy Lands in 2014 to the Catholic Aid Network Caritas Jerusalem, said Vatican News, to help respond to the disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Francis asked that the vehicle be used to help injured and poorly fed children in the Palestinian enclave torn by war.
Caritas converts the vehicle into a mobile health station by modernizing it with medical equipment for the diagnosis, examination and treatment of children, and other vital supplies.
With doctors and doctors, the new wheel clinic will be sent to communities that do not have access to functional health establishments, once access to Gaza is feasible, said Caritas.
“It is not only a vehicle, it is a message that the world has not forgotten the children of Gaza,” said Peter Brune, secretary general of Caritas Sweden, in a statement.
World Peace was a basic message through the Pontificate of Francis, with him having called to ceasefies from the wars of Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas several times, whose final was Easter Sunday-the day before his death.
Francis had made almost northern calls to the Church of the Sainte -Famille – the only Catholic Church in Gaza – which was a de facto shelter for his community of faithful and certain Muslims through the Israeli military campaigns which followed the attacks of October 7, 2023 against Israel by Hamas.
He had also controversially installed a scene of Nativity during the Christmas festivities representing a baby Jesus embedded in a Keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian clothing now strongly associated with movements and pro-Palestine activism, which the Vatican withdrew from the short display after being exposed.
The conclave which will vote for the successor of Francis is gathered on Wednesday.