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  • 7/18/2025
An Israeli strike on Gaza's sole Catholic Church killed three people and injured several others on July 17. The Israeli military later said an initial inquiry suggested fragments from a shell fired in the area hit the church mistakenly and the cause of the incident is under review.

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00:00Mourners gathered at the Greek Orthodox St. Porphyrios Church in Gaza City on Thursday
00:08to bid farewell to two Palestinian Christians who were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
00:13Three people perished in the attack earlier on the Holy Family Church,
00:17which is the only Catholic Church in Gaza.
00:20Several other people, including Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, were also wounded.
00:30We have to hold these difficult decisions, and we have to hold it to the human being, and to this failure, and to this death.
00:35We have to hold it today to the country of Sajid Salama, who is a victim to the church and the murder of Sajid Salama,
00:45and the mother of Fumiyya Ayyab, who was looking at the church and the mother of Tashjel,
00:52who were out of the church and were out of the church, and after that, we had to fight them for their death.
00:56We are living in the village that is located in the previous village.
01:02We arrived at the morning in the morning with a blanket.
01:09We are living in many years and all of them.
01:15They are living in the city and in the city.
01:21This is not a good job.
01:25Head of Catholic Church Pope Leo said he was deeply saddened by the incident, and he called for an immediate ceasefire.
01:32The Israeli military said an initial inquiry suggested that fragments from a shell fired during operational activity in the area hit the church by accident, and the cause of the incident was under review.
01:46Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed regrets that the stray ammunition hit the church, saying that every innocent life lost is a tragedy, and its military remains committed to protecting civilians and religious sites.
02:01The U.S. White House said the incident was not a positive reaction, and President Donald Trump had contacted Netanyahu over the matter.
02:09It 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.
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02:20It was a dispute of crime through the adverse invasion.
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