The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic authority in the Middle East, has strongly condemned the Israeli bombing of a Catholic school in Gaza City, which killed at least four Palestinians.
“The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem is monitoring, with grave concern, the news of the raids, apparently launched by the Israeli army against the Holy Family School in Gaza this morning. Footage and media reports from the place include scenes of civilian casualties and of destruction in the compound,” the Latin Patriarchate said in a statement on Sunday.
The statement says that the school, which is the property of the Latin Patriarchate, has been “a place of refuge for hundreds of civilians” and that “no religious personnel” currently reside there.
“The Latin Patriarchate condemns in the strongest terms the targeting of civilians or any belligerent actions that fall short of ensuring that civilians remain outside the combat scene,” the statement reads. “We continue to pray for the Lord’s mercy and hope that the Parties will reach an agreement that would put an immediate end to the horrifying bloodbath and humanitarian catastrophe in the region.”
Gaza’s civil defense agency said among those killed in the strike was Ehab al-Ghussein, Gaza’s deputy secretary of labor. “Civil Defense crews in Gaza Governorate were able to retrieve four martyrs and a number of injured individuals after Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the ‘Holy Family’ school, which houses a large number of displaced persons west of Gaza City,” the Civil Defense Directorate said, according to CNN. Al-Ghussein’s sister and wife were previously killed by Israeli airstrikes.
Sami El-Yousef, the CEO of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told the Catholic News Agency that the priest and other people based at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City could not confirm the casualties in the strike on the school since it was unsafe to travel there. Over the weekend, Israel ordered another mass evacuation from most of Gaza City and escalated military operations.
“We don’t have accurate numbers because our own parish priest and members of the community could not get to the location because there’s intensive fighting around the parish,” El-Yousef said. “It’s too dangerous for anyone to actually leave. We cannot really with any certainty verify the number of people killed and injured.”
In December, the Holy Family Parish came under Israeli siege. Two Catholic women were killed by Israeli gunfire, and seven people were wounded, an attack Pope Francis denounced as “terrorism.”
Gaza’s Orthodox Christians have also been targeted by the Israeli military. In October, an Israeli airstrike hit part of the Greek Orthodox St. Porphyrius Church in Gaza City, killing at least 18 Palestinian civilians, including relatives of former US House Rep. Justin Amash. At the time, about 500 Christian and Muslim Palestinians were sheltering there.
Where's the Pope?
Around 40% of Palestinians worldwide are Christians. Evidently, Christian Palestinians were first to be to targeted for ethnic cleansing.
Christian Zionists don’t even know Christianity is in the region.
They know very well but purposely ignore the truth.
Fact:
70 years ago, Bethlehem was 86% Christian. Today that number is a mere 12%. The Israeli government built a wall around Bethlehem and annexed the land for Jewish settlements after ethnically cleansing the Christians.
How were these Christians "ethnically cleansed"? Maybe they left entirely of their own accord,c/o duress.
Jewish Voices for Peace fact sheet on the Nakba
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/JVP-Nakba-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Are you so shallow and daft to even figure the definition of ethnic cleansing? But you are more likely engaged in denial and rationalisation of Israeli actions.
Here it is.
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noun
noun: ethnic cleansing
the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.
The bigger tragedy is if you were a Christian and will not face the truth ever and excuse and justify Israeli actions no matter what.
Israel is so nice. "Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Condemns Israeli Bombing of Catholic School in Gaza"
I have a question for all of the so called World Leaders, like Biden, Macron, Putin, Erdogan, etc., when will you destroy the NAZI Regime occupying Israel? Are you going to wait for Netanyahu to expand like Hitler did, before doing the Humane thing? Maybe there are NO more Great World Leaders, maybe too drunk on their own power and those saving the Palestinians, saving our Humanity, will come from the so called "terrorist" as labeled by the USELESS World Leaders. What is a Terrorist?
Biden too is a Zionist, it would help if we had a leader like Orban or Putin that would really help, what we have are Zionists unwilling to even talk to the other side, much less use diplomacy to end the wars, last time we did have such a leader was JFK and they killed him, he was a real diplomate who respected the other side and they respected and trusted him, JFK kept his word, HE WAS TRUSTED.
I'm sure "Hamas" had one of their tunnels underneath it…… "eyeroll"
I totally agree. What can we expect from all the idiots in Washington, Tel Aviv, and Kiev.
If we only could have an Orban, or Putin, Xi Jinping or Lavrov, any one of them, just one adult in the room, bringing common sense to the insane asylum.
I would pray if I could think it would help.
The Ukrainians appear to use the same lawless methods as the Israelis do in Gaza. If the Israelis get away with all the war crimes they commit why can't the Ukrainians. The result of our undisciplined criminal Zionist Biden regime.