Israel strikes church in Gaza killing several Palestinians who had sought refuge
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At least eight Palestinians, including women and children, were killed after the Israel army fired a missile at Gaza Greek Orthodox Church
At least eight Palestinians, including women and children, were killed after the Israel army fired a missile at Gaza Greek Orthodox Church.
Gaza City suffers more destruction as several people who were sheltering in a Greek Orthodox church were killed in an explosion.
The Hamas-controlled interior ministry said several displaced people who had taken shelter at a church compound in the Gaza Strip have been killed and injured after an Israeli strike late Thursday.
In a statement, Hamas said Israel had attacked the church, but this has not been independently confirmed at this stage. It’s understood that at least two women have died and many others have been injured in the attack, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem said targeting the church ‘constitutes a war crime’.
The strike left a “large number of martyrs and injured” at the compound of a Greek Orthodox church, the ministry said.
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Witnesses told AFP the strike appeared to have been aimed at a target close to the place of worship where many Gaza residents had taken refuge as the war raged in the Palestinian enclave.
Many Palestinian families, both Muslim and Christian, sheltered in the church, looking for a safe place due to the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip before the army bombed the church.
The attack comes just days after an explosion at al-Ahli hospital which claimed the lives of hundreds of people and sparked a venomous blame game between Israel, Hamas, and their allies.
The bombarded church is only meters away from the Al-Ahli Anglican Hospital that was bombed by Israel Tuesday, killing 500 civilians, including patients, staff, family members, and other civilians who had taken shelter at the hospital.
A United Nations School that had become a makeshift shelter this past week was also hit.
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