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\u201cAround noon today, December 16^{th<\/sup>, 2023, a sniper of the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families have taken refuge since the start of the war.\u00a0 Nahida and her daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister\u2019s Convent.\u00a0 One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety.\u00a0 Seven more people were shot and wounded as they tried to protect others inside the church compound.\u00a0 No warning was given, no notification was provided. \u00a0They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the Parish, where there are no belligerents.\u201d<\/p>\n}

\u201cEarlier in the morning, a rocket fired from an IDF tank targeted the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Theresa (Missionaries of Charity).\u00a0 The Convent is home to over 54 disabled persons and is part of the church compound, which was signaled as a place of worship since the beginning of the war.\u00a0 The building\u2019s generator and the fuel resources were destroyed.\u00a0 The house was damaged by the resulting explosion and massive fire.\u00a0 Two more rockets, fired by an IDF tank, targeted the same Convent and rendered the home uninhabitable. The 54 disabled persons are currently displaced and without access to the respirators that some of them need to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, as a result of the heavy bombing in the area, three people were wounded inside the church compound last night.\u00a0 Furthermore, solar panels and water tanks, which are indispensable for the survival of the community, were destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether in prayer with the whole Christian community, we express our closeness and condolences to the families affected by this senseless tragedy.\u00a0 At the same time, we cannot but express that we are at a loss to comprehend how such an attack could be carried out, even more so as the whole Church prepares for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

I stand by the words I posted a few weeks ago, when the conflict in Gaza began:<\/p>\n

Civilians die in every conflict, yet in today\u2019s modern world, there is a greater awareness that countries at war must do everything within their ability to avoid the targeting of civilians.\u00a0 Countries have a right to defend themselves, but do not have the right to kill civilians indiscriminately.\u00a0 Otherwise, we are no better than the Crusaders who fought against the Albigensians in Southern France in the thirteenth century, who massacred all and justified their actions saying, \u201cGod will know his own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does a horrendous act of terrorism justify another act of terrorism?\u00a0 Can a wrong be made right with another wrong?\u00a0 It is impossible to remain indifferent to the suffering of millions of civilians whose lives are at stake?\u00a0 Do their lives have less value than the lives of others?\u00a0 Does their pain and suffering not cry up to heaven?<\/p>\n

As war continues in Israel and Gaza, these are the thoughts that run through my mind.\u00a0 The end goal does not justify the means by which one achieves it.\u00a0 I pray for all the civilians caught up in the middle of this war \u2013 the kidnapped, the dead, the ones who have lost family members and their material possessions.\u00a0 I pray that those in authority will find a path of harmony and mutual respect. \u00a0May they recognize the right for the other to exist, to live and to thrive.<\/p>\n

Pictures taken from the Facebook Page of Holy Family, Gazo<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"