Posted on 07/17/2025 2:56:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
The White House states President Donald Trump’s reaction to this morning’s Israeli military strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza was “not positive” and prompted a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At around 10:20 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Holy Family Catholic Church compound “was struck by the Israeli army” killing at least three and injuring nine others “including one in critical condition and two in serious condition,” according to a statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
During a White House press briefing today Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Trump’s reaction to the bombing and responded, “It was not a positive reaction. He called Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning to address the strikes on that church in Gaza. And I understand the Prime Minister agreed to put out a statement.”
She went on to claim, “it was a mistake by the Israelis to hit that Catholic Church. That’s what the Prime Minister relayed to the President. And you should look at the Prime Minister’s statement on that.”
But according to The Pillar, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, expressed doubts that the strike on the church was a mistake.
“What we know for sure is that a tank, the IDF says by mistake, but we are not sure about this, they hit the church directly, the Church of the Holy Family, the Latin Church.”
“We don’t have complete information about what has happened in Gaza today because the communication in Gaza is not that simple,” the Franciscan cardinal said.
However, the Catholic outlet went on to report that “sources close to the patriarchate’s chancery” told them “Church authorities were considering the possibility that the tank attack” upon the church was “a deliberate act of retaliation” for Church authorities speaking out on Monday against violent terrorist attacks by Israeli settlers against the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank.
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The statement by these Christian authorities in the Holy Land charged Israeli authorities with facilitating and enabling the attacks upon Christians and other Palestinians in the occupied territories.
“We call for an immediate and transparent investigation into why the Israeli police did not respond to emergency calls from the local community and why these abhorrent actions continue to go unpunished,” the prelates demanded.
“Furthermore, we ask diplomats, politicians, and church officials worldwide to provide a prayerful and outspoken voice for our ecumenical community in Taybeh, that their presence may be secured and that they can live in peace to worship freely, grow crops without danger, and live in a peace that seems to be in far too short of supply,” the statement said.
Does Israel always tell the truth about everything?
How often has the Mossad pulled a deception operation, after which it brags, "Ha, ha, look how we fooled our enemies!"
One minute Israel brags about how clever it is at deception, then next it insists that it must always be believed or else you're anti-Semitic.
Why don’t you tell us how many times Israel has broken its cease fire agreements?
Agreeing to a cease fire, is lie, if you intend on immediately breaking your promise.
It’s cute when “Catholics” cite anti-nationalist haters of Judaism and Catholicism out of a shared need to declare that Israel is committing genocide. Truth is of no value to these “Catholics,” the ideological descendants of anti-Dreyfusards and French Fascists. If they can call Israel genocidal, then they can invert the Holocaust and rehabilitate their ideology.
Catholic Dhimmi hidding behind 20 Foot walls build against earlier Muslim invasion, while protecting Hamas and helping the Muslim conquest of Europe don’t just deserve to be ridiculed. In a sane orld,they would be dangling from the walls a a warning about betraying Christendom.
How pathetic. Typical Zionist falling back on the old "Holocaust" card to justify unwarranted genocide, 80 years later, in Gaza.
It's so tiresome.
Hardly never.
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