"Sadly, this act adds to the continuous military attacks against the civilian population and places of worship in Gaza."

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli ground troops for the first time Monday pushed into areas of a central Gaza city where several aid groups are based, in what appeared to be the latest effort to carve up the Palestinian territory with military corridors.

The “barbarity of war” and forced displacement of people have to end, and civilians and places of worship have to be protected, Pope Leo XIV implored. “Tragic news continues to arrive these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza,” he said after reciting the Angelus with those gathered outside the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo July 20.

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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Monday called Israel's recent strike on Syria “unnecessary and hasty,” criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and renewing calls for early elections.

On Thursday, an Israeli shell struck the compound of the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people, wounding 10 and damaging the building.

Leaders from the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church visited Gaza’s only Catholic church on Friday, where a day earlier three people were killed in an Israeli strike.

Carlson had raised the question of whether Epstein was running a blackmail operation on behalf of Israeli intelligence during his Friday, July 11 speech to the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, saying "every single person in Washington, D.C., thinks that."

A key governing partner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it is quitting the government, leaving him with a minority in parliament.

When the executive committee of North Carolina’s Democratic Party passed a resolution in June calling for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, it set off another episode in the party’s ongoing struggles with how it addresses the Israel-Hamas war.