He also urgently calls on the international community to promote a two-state solution for a "just and lasting peace," reports the German news agency DPA.
The pope later spread the same message on X.
In recent years, violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has increased. Radical settlers recently besieged Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra in the northern West Bank.
The Israeli military has said it intervened against settlers besieging Palestinians in the West Bank after pressure from the United States.
