Reuters

The buzz began when Reuters first broke the story quoting two anonymous US officials.

Ahmed Alfara, a doctor at the hospital, told the Reuters news agency that the distribution system had failed "100%".

"We went there thinking we would get aid to feed our children, but it turned out to be a trap, a killing. I advise everyone: don't go there," he told Reuters.

A spokesperson for Iran's armed forces has said that the US and Israel will pay a "heavy price" for the strikes, according to Reuters.

The Pope's move shows a "willingness to support reconciliation instead of antagonism", Michel Chambon, a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore who has written extensively about the Catholic Church, told Reuters news agency.