Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
One of the little-known aspects of the late Pope Francis's life that emerged after he died was that he would call a priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Gaza every day.
Well, that church has now been bombed and three people in it have been killed.
Father Gabriel Romanelli, the priest who used to talk to Pope Francis, was injured in the attack.
Israel's foreign ministry has apologized.
Cardinal Pierre Battista Pizzabella is the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem,
so actually he oversees this church.
What does he know about the attack?
From the Israeli army, we don't know exactly from where, from what.
The church has been struck directly and partially destroyed, not very much.
The damage is not that big.
But we had six people seriously wounded and three of them died after a few minutes because of the wounds.
And four others are still now in very serious conditions.
And about 10 to 12, we don't know exactly, they are just lightly wounded.
Are you clear?
why the Israelis did this?
No, it's not clear.
They said that the problem is a mistake.
They always stress that the church and the holy place is not, has never been a target.