An Israeli Defense Forces sniper shot and killed two women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza on Saturday, according to a statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees Catholic churches across Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
The Israel Defense Forces says it mistakenly shot and killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza after misidentifying them as a threat. Follow for live news updates.
Family members of two hostages currently believed to be held in Gaza confronted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant outside his home in northern Israel on Friday.
A journalist with Agence-France Presse who survived Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon in October told CNN it was "hard not to see it as a deliberate strike.”