Posted on 07/22/2014 8:06:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
GAZA (Reuters) - About 1,000 Palestinian Muslims fleeing Israeli shells devastating their Gaza neighborhood have found shelter in a building they otherwise would rarely if ever enter, the city's 12th-century Greek Orthodox Church.
Despite its thick walls dating back to the Crusades, the Church of Saint Porphyrius was still not a very safe haven. Shortly after they arrived, Israeli aircraft bombed a nearby field, spraying shrapnel on the church and damaging graves.
But children from the Shejaia district, where some 72 Palestinians - many of them women and children - were killed during fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants on Sunday, were busy playing football in the yard on Tuesday.
Their mothers watched on mattresses and plastic chairs provided by the church, along with food, blankets and toys.
"We have opened the church in order to help people. This is the duty of the church and we are doing all we can to help them," Archbishop Alexios told Reuters as the sounds of small children echoed outside his office at the church.
"At the beginning there were 600 people and today they became a thousand - mostly children and women. Some of those children are a week old," said the head of Gaza's Greek Orthodox minority, the largest of the Christian communities here.
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The IDF tells these families to flee, and the Orthodox alone take them in. People who talk about “moral equivalence” between us and them are fools.
“Shortly after they arrived, Israeli aircraft bombed a nearby field, spraying shrapnel on the church and damaging graves.”
This makes me laugh - the IDF do not just bomb fields - there would have had to have been enemy combatants in that field or hiding behind the gravestones.
Wait till they see the thanks they’ll get.
No worries there. The Muzzies holing up in that church only want to kill infidels like the Christians there and will train their children that are with them to do so!
Don’t worry soon your churches will burn.
Big difference is that Americans are ARMED to the teeth.
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