Pope Leo XIV said on Thursday he was "deeply saddened" by an Israel strike which hit a Gaza church, killing two people, and called for "an immediate ceasefire". The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem ...

On Oct. 25, 2023, the Egyptian Canadian novelist Omar El Akkad shared on social media a video of a devastated, rubble-strewn Gaza street, the kind of image that at that time, still retained the ...