Pope Leo XIV was welcomed by Daniele Franco, the president of Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, before an operation to remove a mass from his lung on Tuesday.
The Israeli military published an investigation it said rebuts accusations that it intentionally targeted journalists. But it and a journalists group disagree over 78 people who are on the list.
The site, near a hospital in Gaza City, was hit by an Israeli strike that killed an Al Jazeera reporter and several of his colleagues in August last year.
Morocco became the second North African country to have a woman lead the government with the selection of Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, a lawyer and politician from the centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party.
Official statements said bilateral relations were discussed. But the question of who bears responsibility for failing to prevent the Oct. 7 attack is a major election issue in Israel.
Five British men who were detained near R.A.F. Fairford, a base used by American forces in the war against Iran, were being released on bail but remained under investigation.
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