Israel kills three in Gaza Catholic church sheltering elderly, children
At least three people were killed and 10 others wounded, including a priest, in Israel’s attack on the church.
Parish priest of the Holy Family Church, father Gabriele Romanelli, receives medical attention, after he suffered light leg injuries following an Israeli strike on the church in Gaza City [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
Israeli forces have bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least 10 others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, as the military continues its assault across the besieged enclave.
At least one person is in critical condition as a result of Thursday’s strike on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, the Patriarchate said in a statement. The church’s priest was also lightly wounded, it added.
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Among those killed were the parish’s 60-year-old janitor and an 84-year-old woman who was receiving psychosocial support inside a Caritas tent in the church compound, according to the Catholic charity Caritas Jerusalem.
Israeli attacks across Gaza on Thursday killed at least 32 Palestinians, including 25 in Gaza City alone, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
Footage of the Holy Family Church attack published by a Palestinian activist and verified by Al Jazeera shows Father Gabriel Romanelli, the church’s pastor, following the Israeli attack. The video shows the priest with his right leg bandaged but otherwise in good condition.
“The people in the Holy Family Compound are people who found in the Church a sanctuary – hoping that the horrors of war might at least spare their lives, after their homes, possessions, and dignity had already been stripped away,” the Patriarchate said in its statement after condemning the deadly attack.
Shadi Abu Dawoud, a 47-year-old Palestinian Christian, said the church’s main hall was housing dozens of displaced citizens, mainly children and elderly people, and that all were “peaceful civilians”.
“My mother suffered serious injuries in the head; she was wandering in the church’s yard with other elderly women [when Israeli forces attacked],” he told Al Jazeera. “We were taken by surprise by this Israeli air strike. This is a barbaric and unjustifiable act.”
Mohammed Abu Hashem, a 69-year-old man who lives beside the church, said he was in the ruins of his home when there was a huge explosion that covered the area in black smoke, adding that he never thought the Israelis would attack the church.
“The Israeli air strike was massive, totally horrifying,” he said. “The horror we are living in is beyond description. No words could describe what we are living through. It is not even close to what you watch [on TV] or hear.”
Father Bashar Fawadleh, the parish priest of Christ The Redeemer church in Taybeh, nearly Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, said he spoke about the attack with the assistant parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
“He told me that the bombing was very hard. They bombed the church itself,” Fawadleh told Al Jazeera. “Our feeling is between hope and sorrow, between life and death.”
Fawadleh reiterated calls for a ceasefire to stop the “horrible war in Gaza”.
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Satanyahu and his Shailok hordes are EVIL beyond belief
Al Jezebel reporting falsehoods again.
ReplyDeleteThe patriarchs of the Christian churches have visited the accidentally bombed church. Netanyahu personally phoned the Papa in Rome to apologize.
But Al Jezebel failed to report that since 2007 when Harm-ass took over Gaza the Christian population has been GENOCIDED by 90%. But no mention of this?
Similarly the Palestinian Authority has GENOCIDED the Christian population in West Bank, eg Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, used to be majority Christian’s, now they are a tiny minority.
Conversely the population of Ishmaels in Gaza and West Bank has exploded.
So who is genociding who?
Arafat's wife is a Christian
DeleteNo relevance. She converted at marriage.
DeleteArafat was Egyptian. Egypt has GENOCIDED the Coptic Christian’s there. Even The Guardian of The Truth says so, so it must be True.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/10/christians-egypt-unprecedented-persecution-report
Kerbau - from Google: No, Yasser Arafat was not Egyptian. While he was born in Cairo, Egypt, his father was a Palestinian from Gaza, and his mother was from Jerusalem. He was raised in Cairo but always considered himself Palestinian and dedicated his life to the Palestinian cause.
DeleteThis mfer now turns from using issac to genocide to express its mfering twist of facts!
DeleteLembu. He was born in 1929 in Egypt. What passport/nationality did his father hold, since Gaza was then British Mandate? Egyptian, British or Palestinian?
Delete“Palestine” did not even exist in 1929.
Oh…maybe this Right of Return thingy again?
From wiki:
Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1929. Yasser's paternal grandmother, was Egyptian. Arafat's father battled in the Egyptian courts for 25 years to claim family land in Egypt as part of his inheritance but was unsuccessful.
I was born and raised in Ipoh. My father was born in Xiamen. Can I “consider myself to be komunis Cina” and conveniently claim his citizenship and cows and farm? Will BullyXi allow?
Egypt has a border with Gaza. Why don’t they help their fellow Ishmaels in Gaza?
DeleteCan someone, ANYONE answer?
mfer, look no further than am those countries bordering Ukraine.
DeleteWhy don’t they help their Ukrainian fellows?
So what if u r a mfering bananazied & zionized AhBeng in M'sia. Where is yr allegiance to a country where u r born?
DeleteU have zilch claims on anything ancestral in yr parents ancestral home!
Unlike most of those f*cked western DemoNcratic nations, dual &/or multinationality is NOT recognizable by many other sovereign countries.
Those Europe rejected zionists go further than just spurious ancestral claimants, they want to rebuilt their grandmother's fairytale kingdom based on their f*cked religious ground.
Since u r so anmokausai-sed to ur mother western, mfer, goes claim yr citizenship and cows and farm with whichever Democratic countries that entertained yr entitlement lah!
This Ishmael signboard deliberately placed in front of the Holiest Church, The Church of the Holy Sepulture in Jerusalem to INSULT Christians performing pilgrimage there.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.lastampa.it/vatican-insider/en/2011/07/28/news/an-islamic-and-anti-christian-poster-in-the-streets-of-jerusalem-1.36952962/
It is an Islamic and anti-Christian poster in the streets of Jerusalem
It was placed in the middle of Via Dolorosa, the route through the Old City of Jerusalem where thousands of pilgrims pass each day.
“Jesus said: I am indeed a servant of Allah, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so you will pray only Him”. It is written in clear English, preceded by the Shahada, the Islamic profession of Islamic faith, and followed by a reference to the verse of the Koran in question. Next to the figure of a hand with index finger raised, as if in warning, and reference to the web site www.islam-guide.com for those who want to know more.
It looks like a regular poster, but the substance is that of a clear provocation against Christians. Because the banner in question did not just pop up anywhere, but in the middle of the Via Dolorosa, the route within the Old City of Jerusalem through which every day thousands of pilgrims retrace the stations of the hill of Jesus up to Calvary, the place of his crucifixion.
It has been there for a few days, a "guest" on the railing of one of many homes in the Muslim neighborhood where Via Dolorosa has passed through for centuries. It is located in front of the third station, recalling Jesus first fall along his way to the cross: there is a church here, where Christians alternate each day in prayer before the Eucharist, exposed from day to dusk. This is where Muslims decided to place this banner which bears the isncription “only Allah is to be worshipped”.
From Saturday, then, as well as the one on Via Dolorosa there is also another second banner, identical to the first and always inside the Old City. It a little more hidden, but its position is no less sensational: in fact, it is located inside the courtyard of the Mosque of Omar, which is the closest to the basilica of the Holy Sepulcher, only a few tens of meters separate it from the place most revered by Christians.
Ironically, this small mosque actually has a history that tells of an important gesture of respect made by a Muslim towards Christians. In fact, when in the year 638 the caliph Omar, the second successor of Muhammad, came to Jerusalem as a conqueror did not accept the invitation of the patriarch Sophronius to enter and pray in the Holy Sepulcher: knowing, in fact, that the gesture would lead to the transformation of the basilica into a Muslim location, Omar stayed outside and for this reason a mosque was built there. Today, however, there is a message of intolerance toward Christians.
wow… written as if this mfer has been personally been there!
DeleteNo more ChatGPT farts to color its lies. Now using zionist propagandas to crest hatred.
No substantiated proofs to support that the signboard deliberately placed in front of The Church of the Holy Sepulture in Jerusalem is done by Muslim inhabitants.
Mfer, Jerusalem is been administrated by the zionist state. Couldn't it be that that signboard is purposely placed by zionist provacatuers? A supposedly religious offensive signboard been erected inviting of a church & yet the city governing authority does NOTHING to remove it!
That said a lot about the udang dibelakang batu of the mfering zionist administrator.
The Jerusalem inhabitants have exhibited tolerances towards each other since eon. But those Europe rejected zionists have translated those tolerances into religious weapon - likening their usage of monetary resources to squeeze & control people to achieve their profound aim.