Three people died from wounds after a tank fired on the only Catholic church in Gaza. Shelling from an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) tank hit the Holy Family Church during a raid in northern Gaza on Thursday morning, according to a statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem shortly afterwards.

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 Latin-rite Catholics in Gaza,

Three people were killed and 10 injured in an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic church in Gaza, on Thursday, said the parish and the Vatican, which issued a response from Pope Leo XIV.