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.
READ: Holy Land bishops urge Christians worldwide to help defend faithful from Israeli settler attacks
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.
Yeah, and the next Israli PM will be even more right wing.
No, if Hamas was in that Catholic Church, well, you know, survival. Awful way to have to live I would think.
No, the Church has maintained friendly relations with Israel. It’s a spirit of antichrist, which has a million fprms.Only in YESHUA is the truth
According to the Israeli news station, I24 News, the government is investigating what happened. They acknowledge an IDF tank did shell the church and they are being told it was an accident. Let’s see what they find.
Are you persecuted in Israel, are you spit upon. Does your own family call you not Jewish for belivng on YESHUA? (As my late mother did to me?) There should be NO ONE angrier at the Israli Government than us Messianic Jews, yet will still support Israel, not because of what otdoes, but because of his PROMISES.
There can be terrorists on both sides.
Netanyahu mourns victims of Gaza church attack, IDF investigates.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expresses deep regret over missile hitting Gaza’s H. Family Church, leading to casualties, stressing Israel’s commitment to protecting civilians and h. sites.
Israel National News.
Published: Jul 17, 2025, 10:21 PM (GMT+3)
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411846
Poles were victims. Hitler and Stalin invaded Poland within weeks of each other, killing up to 3 million Polish gentiles during WW2, about as many as Polish Jews.
After which, Poland continued suffering under Soviet rule.
According to a 1970 article, 200000 Jews died at the hands of their Polish neighbors.
Though many were righteous too.
If that Church was supporting mudslime terrorists, then so be it.
Just who has done the attacking?
The IDF on a Catholic church. That's who.
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. I read the article. There is no specification of the faith of the 3 killed and 9 injured. Muslim or Catholic? I know 3 were Catholic.
a fragment from Israeli military operation nearby ended up in church. Israel has apologized, but this was hardly an Israeli ATTACK on a church. get real.
It’s not Israel “hitting” the church, it’s the church being hit as collateral damage. Still not good, but they make it sound like it was the target.
Israel is not a terrorist state you buffoon.
100% certified insane.
I didn’t know there were any Catholic churches in Gaza. It’s hard to believe Hamas allowed it. They’re not big fans of the Sunday people.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews seen spitting on Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem
Are you a Muslim?
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