GAZA, July 16, 2025 (WAFA) – Jordan condemned on Thursday the Israeli bombing of the only Catholic church in the war-battered Gaza Strip, which killed two women and wounded other Palestinian civilians, including a pastor.
In a statement issued by the Jordan News Agency, the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Sufian Qudah, condemned the bombing as a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the 1949 Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons.
Qudah said that Israel's shelling of the Gaza church is an extension of the Israeli government’s extremist policy, which continues its systematic aggression against innocent civilians in the Strip.
He urged Israel, the occupying power, to comply with its obligations under international law, particularly international humanitarian law, and specifically refrain from attacking civilian monuments and places of worship in the Gaza Strip immediately.
He called for the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities and take an effective stance not only to halt the Israeli aggression on Gaza immediately, but also to ensure the prompt entry of sufficient and immediate aid to the Strip, which is suffering from an unprecedented humanitarian disaster caused and exacerbated by the Israeli aggression.
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