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Associated Press
9 minutes ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
Parish priest and several injured as airstrikes hit a Gaza church
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Airstrikes hit the Holy Family Church in northern Gaza on Thursday morning, injuring several people including the parish priest, officials with the Catholic Church said. Parish priest Fr. Gabriel Romanelli was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke often during the war in Gaza. The church was damaged in the attack, officials said, in what witnesses said appeared to be an Israeli tank shelling. The Israeli military did not have immediate comment on the strike.
Reuters
9 minutes ago
- Politics
- Reuters
Two dead, several injured in raid on Catholic church in Gaza
GAZA CITY, July 17 (Reuters) - Two women were killed and several people were injured following a strike which hit the Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip, doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said on Thursday. The strike damaged the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church inside the Palestinian enclave. The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Israeli Defense Forces said it was looking into the matter. Italy's ANSA news agency said six people were seriously injured, while parish priest Father Gabriele Romanelli, who used to regularly update the late Pope Francis about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, suffered light leg injuries. "Israeli raids on Gaza have also hit the Holy Family Church," Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a statement. "The attacks against the civilian population that Israel has been carrying out for months are unacceptable. No military action can justify such an attitude," she added.
Al Arabiya
9 minutes ago
- Al Arabiya
Two dead, several injured in raid on Catholic church in Gaza
Two women were killed and several were injured following a strike on the Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip, doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said on Thursday. The strike damaged the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church inside the Palestinian enclave. Italy's ANSA news agency said six people were seriously injured, while parish priest Father Gabriele Romanelli, who used to regularly update the late Pope Francis about the war, suffered light leg injuries. Developing
Asharq Al-Awsat
an hour ago
- Health
- Asharq Al-Awsat
UN Humanitarian Chief Says Conditions in Gaza are ‘Beyond Vocabulary'
Food supplies are running out and civilians are being shot while seeking something to eat, Undersecretary-General Tom Fletcher said Wednesday. "Civilians are exposed to death and injury, forcible displacement, stripped of dignity,' Fletcher told the UN Security Council, emphasizing Israel's obligation under the Geneva Conventions to provide food and medical aid as the occupying power in Gaza. He also challenged the council to consider whether Israel's rules of engagement incorporate all the precautions to avoid and minimize civilian casualties. Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from being trampled, the group said. They were the first deaths reported at one of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund sites, although hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces on the roads leading to them, according to witnesses and health officials. Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 54 others, including 14 children, according to hospital officials.
Telegraph
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
The video that exposes the BBC's rotten moral core
When it comes to Israel, no matter how low the BBC sinks, it always finds grim new depths to plumb. Deborah Turness, head of news at the Corporation, has told a staff meeting that Hamas's government is 'different' from its paramilitary wing. She made the comments in a meeting called to address the 'catastrophic failure' that saw the BBC air the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone without telling viewers that the narrator was the son of a deputy minister in the Gaza government. A leaked video shows Turness claiming that the father was 'a member of the Hamas-run government, which is different to being part of the military wing of Hamas'. She adds that 'we need to continually remind people of the difference'. It is another slide into the moral morass for an organisation that has spent the two years since the October 7 terrorist attacks assiduously trashing what little reputation it had left as a fair and impartial reporter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That reputation will never recover from the Corporation's decision to continue livestreaming Bob Vylan's Glastonbury set even as the lead vocalist began leading the crowd in calls for 'death, death to the IDF'. The way things are going, Hamas would be well advised to distance itself from the BBC. Turness is wrong as a matter of fact and as a matter of law. For years, useful idiots in the British foreign policy arena promoted the fiction that Hamas's politburo was a separate entity to its paramilitary wing: the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. This allowed the organisation to escape comprehensive proscription. That changed in 2021 when the Government concluded that 'the approach of distinguishing between the various parts of Hamas is artificial' and that Hamas is 'a complex but single terrorist organisation'. A person who invites support for Hamas in the UK, even if they specify only the 'political wing', commits an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000. The BBC's head of news might be expected to know this, but it is not only Turness's ignorance that is troubling. It is the attempt to downplay the gravity of the editorial failings that put the Gaza documentary on the air and the breach of trust with viewers that it represented. A news organisation that felt sincere remorse over this episode would not be trying to weasel its way out of responsibility. The BBC is too rotten to the core with error, arrogance and ideology to be truly contrite, especially when its favourite punching bag is involved. The anti-Israel bias is so systemic that it has become an inextricable part of the Corporation's identity. It could no sooner give up its hostile framing of Israel than it could ditch the opening theme to The Archers. But a BBC that can't be even-handed on Israel is a BBC that can no longer be trusted.
