Pope Leo XIV spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a tank hit the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people.

Pope Leo XIV urged “an immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. Not long before, an Israeli strike had hit Gaza’s sole Catholic Church, killing three people who had been sheltering there and injuring 10 more.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telephoned Pope Leo XIV, who urged Israel's leader to revive negotiations and enact a ceasefire.

Christians in the Holy Land have started to report Israeli settler violence to Pope Leo XIV. This time, the Christian community in the Holy Land, and beyond, has decided to raise its voice. Condemnations of the indiscriminate violence by settlers in the West Bank are mounting,