VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis doubled down Sunday (Dec 22) on his condemnation of Israel's strikes on the Gaza Strip , denouncing their "cruelty" for the second time in as many days despite Israel accusing him of "double standards". "And with pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. What cruelty," the pope said after his weekly Angelus prayer. It comes a day after the 88-year-old Argentine lamented an Israeli