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Fears mount for Gaza’s tiny Christian community after mom and daughter shot dead
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TEL AVIV — The fatal shooting of a mother and daughter in Gaza’s only Catholic church over the weekend highlights the pressure Christians in the enclave are under, with fears mounting that their tiny population could be wiped out during the war.
Israel has denied responsibility for the incident, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office saying that “according to an IDF investigation, this claim is not true.” It said that in that specific area Saturday, there was no fighting.
On Oct. 21, the nearby St. Porphyrius, Gaza’s oldest Greek Orthodox church, was rocked by a deafening explosion, which killed at least 18 people, according to Palestinian health authorities in the enclave.
The deadly shooting of Nahida and Samar Anton came after warnings of an increasingly desperate situation in the church, where hundreds of people have sought refuge amid Israel’s bombardment.
The vast majority of their population is Greek Orthodox, while a much smaller share is Roman Catholic, Baptist and other Protestant denominations, according to a 2014 survey by the YMCA.
So far, the conflict has seen more than 18,700 people killed in Gaza, according to Palestinian health authorities in the enclave, with around 90% of the population of roughly 2.2 million displaced, according to United Nations estimates.
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