Singer Madonna called on Pope Leo XIV to “go and open the humanitarian gates” of Gaza, in an Instagram post on Monday.

“Please go to Gaza and bring your light to the children before it’s too late,” Madonna wrote, adding that she cannot bear as a mother to see the suffering of the children in Gaza.
She continued, stating that the pope is the only one who wouldn’t be denied entry to the enclave.

“We need the humanitarian gates to be fully opened to save these innocent children,” the post added.

Madonna further stressed, “There is no more time. Please say you will go,” she begged.

In her post, Madonna explained that she is not placing blame or taking sides in the Israel-Hamas war. “Everyone is suffering, including the mothers of the hostages. I pray that they are released as well.”

“I am merely trying to do what I can to keep these children from dying of starvation,” she wrote.