Top church official says IDF tank hit Gaza church

Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says it was an Israeli tank that hit the Holy Family Church in Gaza earlier today.

“What we know for sure is that a tank, the IDF says by mistake, but we are not sure about this, they hit the church directly, the Church of the Holy Family, the Latin Church,” he tells Vatican News.

“We don’t have complete information about what has happened in Gaza today because the communication in Gaza is not that simple,” he says.

“It’s too early to talk about all this, we need to understand what happened, what should be done, especially to protect our people, and of course try to make sure that these things don’t happen anymore,” Pizzaballa continues. “Then we will see how to continue, but certainly we will never leave [the Catholic community in Gaza] alone.”