
Israel says it ‘deeply regrets' strike on Gaza's only Catholic church, pledges investigation
Israel said Thursday that it 'deeply regrets' a deadly strike on Gaza's only Catholic church, which killed three people.
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which has jurisdiction for Roman Catholics in Gaza, said the Holy Family Church was struck by Israel on Thursday morning. The church has become a shelter for the enclave's tiny Christian community amid the 20-month war.
The office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that 'Israel deeply regrets that a stray ammunition hit Gaza's Holy Family Church. Every innocent life lost is a tragedy.'
'Israel is investigating the incident and remains committed to protecting civilians and holy sites,' the office added in a statement.
Pope Leo received a phone call from Netanyahu on Friday, following the strike, the Vatican said, in which the patriarch expressed the importance of protecting places of worship.
During the phone call, which Netanyahu's office is yet to comment on, Leo renewed his calls for a ceasefire to be reached by the warring sides in Gaza, a statement said.
Pope Leo 'again expressed his concern for the dramatic humanitarian situation of the population in Gaza, whose heartbreaking price is paid especially by children, the elderly and the sick,' according to the statement.
Leaders from the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church visited the church on Thursday, in a highly unusual trip given Israel's tight control over access in and out of the territory.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, together with Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, visited the enclave to show their support for Gaza's Catholics, according to a statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
The two expressed 'the shared pastoral solicitude of the Churches of the Holy Land and their concern for the community of Gaza,' according to a statement from the Jerusalem Patriarchate.
Leaders from the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church visited the church on Thursday, in a highly unusual trip.
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Netanyahu told US President Donald Trump in a phone call that the church incident was a 'mistake,' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told a briefing Thursday. Asked about Trump's view on the strike, Leavitt described it as 'not a positive reaction.'
The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged it hit the church 'mistakenly.'
'An initial inquiry into reports regarding injured individuals in the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, suggests that fragments from a shell fired during operational activity in the area hit the church mistakenly,' the IDF said in a statement on Thursday.
'The cause of the incident is under review.'
Church 'directly' hit
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, told Vatican News that the church was hit 'directly' by a tank Thursday morning.
The parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli, was injured in the attack, the patriarchate said, alongside a number of others. Romanelli is an Argentine who has ministered in Gaza for close to 30 years.
It named the three killed as Saad Issa Kostandi Salameh, Foumia Issa Latif Ayyad and Najwa Abu Dawood. Several others were also injured.
Images verified by CNN showed the church was damaged in the attack, but the crucifix on top of the church's roof appeared intact.
The church has come under attack once before amid Israel's war in Gaza. In December 2023, an Israeli military sniper shot and killed two women who were sheltering inside, according to the patriarchate.
The church is known internationally for its close connection with the late Pope Francis, who would call the parish almost daily as the war raged on.
Only around 1,000 Christians are thought to have lived in Gaza before the October 7 attacks, which is overwhelmingly a Muslim territory.
Meanwhile ceasefire talks to end the war in Gaza, which Palestinian officials say has killed over 58,000 people, are continuing.
Israel may show flexibility on a key sticking point in the talks, sources have told CNN, as negotiators attempt to close the gaps preventing the first pause in months of fighting.
Specifically, there could be some flexibility from Israel on the potential withdrawal of its troops from the Morag Corridor – a key Israeli security zone in the southern Gaza strip – a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Thursday.
The corridor was established by Israeli forces in April with the stated intention of dividing up Gaza and exerting greater pressure on Hamas. Its name refers to the Jewish settlement of Morag that once lay between the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of the territory.
The US had talked up the prospects of a quick agreement in the talks, which had gained momentum after a deal ended the brief Israel-Iran conflict last month. But days of talks yielded no breakthrough.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.
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CNN — Even President Donald Trump doesn't seem to think his angry and chaotic efforts to end the renewed storm over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will work. He warned in a weekend social media post that 'nothing will be good enough' to satisfy what he claims are leftists and troublemakers fanning the uproar. In reality, however, the controversy was heightened by Trump's defensive outbursts following his aides' clumsy efforts to quell conspiracies they fueled before the 2024 election over Epstein's death in prison and a supposed celebrity client list. But Trump's Truth Social post raises important questions. Will the intrigue, which differs from most of his political tangles since it set the president against his own base, be accelerated by new revelations, including curiosity over Trump's past ties to Epstein, an accused sex trafficker? Or, after two weeks of internal recriminations, will the MAGA movement unite to protect its patron following a Wall Street Journal report Thursday on Trump and Epstein, which the president used to set up his trademark assault on 'fake news'? Trump did everything he could to ignite new political fires Sunday to distract attention from the Epstein saga. He demanded that the NFL's Washington Commanders play again as the Redskins and blasted Obama administration officials over intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help him. But the Epstein matter has so far created its own momentum and defied his efforts to quiet it. It's rather curious in this sense, since it seems less pertinent to the lives of millions of Americans than the impact of Trump's radical policy moves and power grabs, which have repeatedly tested the Constitution and risked harming the economy. But scandals that boil away and don't fade are always a dangerous sign for White Houses, even when the president has a Teflon hide as thick as Trump's. One reason this controversy has legs is that its foundations are part of the MAGA philosophy — the idea that hidden elites in the intelligence agencies and government are running an American 'deep state' that hides the truth about issues like child sex trafficking. Declarations by Trump officials who fomented the conspiracy that there is nothing to it seemed only to validate the concerns of committed conspiracists in the movement. A message calling on Trump to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein is projected onto the US Chamber of Commerce building across from the White House on July 18, 2025. Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images Democrats echo MAGA conspiracists and demand transparency The uproar showed no sign of passing at the weekend, frustrating Trump's efforts to highlight the success of his first six months in power, which he has used to gut parts of the federal government and to send a jolt of social change through American life. Democrats launched a new push to discomfit Trump, parroting demands by some MAGA activists for total transparency over the Epstein case as they try to finally find some traction against a president who has obliterated opposition in Washington. 'The president blaming Democrats for this disaster … is like that CEO that got caught on camera blaming Coldplay,' Sen Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, told CNN's Jake Tapper on 'State of the Union' on Sunday. 'This is his making: He was president when Epstein got indicted for these charges and went to prison. He was president back then. So all of us would believe they know what's in these documents. They know what's there. They have been claiming forever that they should be released.' The administration's missteps might give Democrats an opening, especially since Trump's approval ratings are now in the low 40s and there is growing public concern over his signature hardline deportation policies. A new CNN/SSRS poll Sunday showed that 55% of Americans think Trump has gone too far with his deportations. But despite fierce internal bickering in the MAGA movement, it's doubtful Epstein is a deal-breaker for most of the president's supporters. A CBS News poll Sunday showed GOP voters evenly split over the Trump administration's handling of the matter. A majority of MAGA Republicans said they were satisfied; only 36% of all voters and 11% of Republicans said the issue matters 'a lot' when evaluating Trump's presidency. But if the public feels this way, why won't the storm abate? 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