US EditionChristian Leaders Make Rare Visit to Gaza Following Deadly Israeli Church Attack
GAZA STRIP, JUL 17 – An Israeli shell hit Gaza's only Catholic church, killing three and injuring 10, including the parish priest, while sheltering hundreds displaced by the ongoing conflict, officials said.
- On Thursday the Holy Family Catholic Church compound was struck by an Israeli shell, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, church officials said.
- The military operation in Gaza started after Hamas’s raid on October 7, 2023, and Gaza health authorities reported over 58,000 Palestinians killed.
- Sheltering hundreds of displaced people, the church compound was damaged, according to Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
- No military action can justify such an attitude, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said, while Benjamin Netanyahu expressed regret that stray ammunition hit Gaza's Holy Family Church.
- Pope Leo XIV reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire, noting little visible progress in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas.
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After more than 58,000 deaths in Gaza since the beginning of the war, three people have had to lose their lives in an Israeli attack on a Catholic temple in the Gaza Strip so that U.S. President Donald Trump will reprimand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There are three consequences that suggest that the bombing of the Holy Family parish on Thursday was not just any attack. First, Netanyahu, after talking to Trump, has issued a statement in w…
It took 649 days for Giorgia Meloni to use her social media for a direct condemnation of the Israeli "raid" on Gaza, defined as "unacceptable" as well as the attacks against the civilian population that Israel has been carrying out for months, because "no military action can justify such an attitude." Finally, it will be said. Yet so much indignation was caused by the attack of the IDF on the Church of the Holy Family, the only Catholic communit…
Israel's Netanyahu called Pope Leo after Gaza church strike, Vatican says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo on Friday, the Vatican said, a day after an Israeli strike on Gaza's sole Catholic church killed three people and injured several more.
IDF: Gaza Church Strike That Killed Three Was Accidental
Initial findings suggest that a shell fired during operations in Gaza City unintentionally struck the church compound. By Vered Weiss, World Israel News The Israeli military said a preliminary investigation found that the shelling of Gaza’s Holy Family Church, which killed three civilians, was unintentional and the result of shrapnel from a military operation nearby. The strike occurred on Thursday at the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, …
Catholic, Greek Orthodox leaders enter Gaza in rare solidarity visit after Israel's church strike in Gaza
The delegation was also planning on sending hundreds of tons of food aid, medical supplies and equipment to families inside Gaza, the patriarchate said, adding they also had “ensured evacuation” of individuals injured in the attack to hospitals outside Gaza.
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