The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem confirmed the deaths, stating a tank shell struck the church directly at around 10:30 am. Among the injured was parish priest Father Gabriel Romanelli. Israel’s military later claimed an initial inquiry suggested fragments from a shell “hit the church mistakenly.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Netanyahu acknowledged the attack as a mistake. “It was a mistake by the Israelis to hit that Catholic church, that’s what the prime minister relayed to the president,“ she told reporters.
The Latin Patriarchate condemned the attack, noting the church sheltered around 600 displaced people, mostly children and 54 with special needs. “The people in the Holy Family Compound found in the Church a sanctuary,“ it said in a statement.
Gaza’s civil defence reported at least 22 other deaths from Israeli strikes across the territory on the same day. Out of Gaza’s two million residents, only about 1,000 are Christians, with 135 identifying as Catholic.
The war, now in its 21st month, has displaced most of Gaza’s population and triggered severe shortages of food and essentials. It began after Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel, which killed 1,219 people, mostly civilians. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has claimed at least 58,667 Palestinian lives, per Gaza’s health ministry.
Media restrictions in Gaza make independent verification of casualty figures difficult. - AFP
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