Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part twenty-two

The enormity of the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and elsewhere is truly staggering. Entirely innocent people who have no interest in Hamas, whose leaders care nothing for their plight, have been subjected to point-blank gunfire, executions, targeted bombings and, of course, their systemic starvation in a manner compares with the English starvation of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century and the Soviet starvation of five million Ukrainian Catholics in the Holodomor from 1932 to 1933.

The Zionist inhumanity towards the Palestinians is based on the established Zionist belief that non-Jews are subhumans unworthy and that all non-Jews must be eliminated in order for the mystical Jewish “messiah” to make himself manifest to restore “Israel” to its “rightful” place, politically and territorially:

The Jewish Messiah will only appear once Europe and Christianity is totally destroyed. So, I ask you, is it good news that that Islam invades Europe? It is excellent news! Islam is the broom of Israel. (Rabbi David Touitou. Jewish Rabbi "The Messiah will return only once Europa & Christianity are destroyed".)

This is not a singular attitude among Chabad rabbis, and it this seething hatred for Christ the King and His true Church, whose apostles and missionaries converted Europe from pagan superstition and barbarism to the true Faith is inspired only the devil himself, to whom the souls of Jews and Mohammedans are held captive by means of Original Sin, and this seething hatred for “subhumans that the driving force behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s liquidation of the Palestinians of Gaza;

Malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza are beginning to climb, with the health ministry reporting 18 in a single 24-hour period. Doctors report that people are “collapsing” in the street, and Gaza journalist Nahed Hajjaj is warning the world not to be surprised if the remaining reporters in the enclave are soon silenced by starvation.

Unless something drastically changes, things can be expected to get much worse very rapidly.

Meanwhile Israeli forces are setting new records with their massacres of starving civilians seeking aid, with 85 killed in a single day on Sunday.

If this isn’t evil, then nothing is evil. If Israel isn’t evil, then nothing is.

So what’s the plan here? Do we just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to death with the support of our own governments?

And then what? We just go along with our lives, knowing that that happened? That this is what we are as a society? That our civilization is comfortable allowing something like that to happen? And that our rulers could do the same thing to another inconvenient population at any time?

We’re just meant to be cool with that? And go on living like it’s normal?

I’m genuinely curious. How exactly is everyone planning to go about living their lives after that point? How does that work, exactly?

I’m asking because I don’t know. I mean, I know what my own government and its allies should do, but I don’t know what we as ordinary members of the public are supposed to do.

You’ll see western pundits and politicians asking “How do we get a ceasefire in Gaza?” or “How do we end hunger in Gaza?” as though it’s some kind of ineffable mystery, which is kind of like a man strangling a child to death while saying “The child is being strangled, but HOW do we stop the child strangulation from occurring?”

It’s not some mystery how to get a ceasefire in Gaza; the empire is the fire. It simply needs to cease firing. Israel’s holocaust in Gaza is made possible only by the support of its western backers, primarily the United States. Numerous Israeli military insiders have acknowledged that none of this would be possible without US support. If the United States and its western allies ceased backing Israel’s onslaught in Gaza, a ceasefire would have to occur.

Likewise, it is not a mystery how to get food into Gaza. You just drive the food on in and give it to people. They’ve got roads and gates right there. The only reason people in Gaza are starving is because western governments (including my own Australia) conspired to pretend to believe that UNRWA is a terrorist organization to justify cutting off critical aid, while doing nothing to pressure Israel into allowing aid to flow freely.

And now Israel and the US empire are monopolizing the delivery of “aid” through the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose facilities now see civilians massacred every day for the crime of attempting to obtain food.

The organizations, funding and delivery systems to feed Gaza are all 100 percent fully available (at no cost to Israel, by the way). They’re just not being allowed to provide aid because the goal is to remove all Palestinians from Gaza via death or displacement. The people of Gaza are starving because the west is helping Israel starve Gaza. It really is that simple.

This isn’t some kind of unfortunate famine caused by a drought or natural disaster. It is a deliberately manufactured starvation campaign, implemented with genocidal intent.

To paraphrase Utah Phillips, Gaza isn’t starving, it is being starved. And the people who are starving it have names and addresses. (Gaza Isn’t Starving, It Is Being Starved.)

Palestinians are beginning to resemble “walking corpses”, a United Nations official said on Thursday as Sir Keir Starmer called the starvation unfolding in Gaza “unspeakable and indefensible”.

Humanitarian workers in the territory are seeing children who are “emaciated, weak and at high risk of dying” without urgent treatment, said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UNRWA relief agency.

The prime minister is due to hold an emergency call with France and Germany on Friday to push for aid – and a ceasefire. “We are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe,” he said. “The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible. While the situation has been grave for some time, it has reached new depths and continues to worsen.”

Sir Keir’s comments came just hours before French president Emmanuel Macron announced that France will recognise Palestinian statehood in September at the United Nations General Assembly.

The number of people starving in Gaza is reported to have increased dramatically in recent days; most of the 113 hunger-related deaths recorded there so far have occurred in recent weeks, and 82 of those who have died were children, according to Palestinian health officials.

Israel has imposed heavy restrictions on the amount of food and aid allowed to enter the territory, limiting aid to a handful of trucks each day following an 11-week total blockade earlier this year. UN officials say the aid delivered into the strip is a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed.

“We all agree on the pressing need for Israel to change course and allow the aid that is desperately needed to enter Gaza without delay,” Sir Keir said.

Mr Lazzarini said a UNRWA worker had described people in Gaza as “neither dead nor alive – they are walking corpses”. He said the agency has the equivalent of 6,000 loaded trucks of food and medical supplies in Jordan and Egypt, which have not yet been allowed into the territory.

“Families are no longer coping: they are breaking down, unable to survive. Their existence is threatened,” he said.

Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinians who were attempting to secure food from a limited number of aid trucks. The killings have drawn widespread condemnation, including from many of Israel’s own allies.

As more than 100 human rights groups and charities demanded in a letter on Wednesday that more aid be allowed in, Palestinians living in Gaza said they had been forced to trade personal items, such as gold jewellery, for flour.

“We are living in hunger and daily suffering, as prices have risen in an insane way that no Gazan citizen, whether employed or unemployed, can bear, in a way that is beyond comprehension,” said Wajih al-Najjar, 70, from Gaza City, the breadwinner for a family of 13.

“People are forced to go to death in search of some aid,” he told The Independent, lamenting the exorbitant price of flour, which he says has shot up from 35 shekels (£7.74) to up to 180 shekels (£39.80) per kilo

Mr Najjar, who has lost one quarter of his bodyweight – dropping from 85kg to 62kg – said he cannot get a full meal for himself. “So what about children who need food more than three times a day?” he said.

Meanwhile, major broadcasters and news agencies, including the BBC and Reuters, issued a joint statement to say that their journalists on the ground in Gaza are also facing the “threat of starvation”.

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families,” it read. “For many months, these independent journalists have been the world’s eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering.

“Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in war zones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them.”

Prices continue to rise beyond control, and food scarcity has soared to an unprecedented level in the Gaza Strip, in the 21st month of a destructive Israeli invasion and bombardment that Palestinian health officials say has killed more than 60,000 people.

The war and invasion began on 7 October 2023 in response to attacks perpetrated on Israel by Hamas militants, who killed 1,200 people and captured at least 250 hostages.

Ihab Abdullah, a 43-year-old university lecturer who is the breadwinner for nine family members, said that every night before he goes to sleep, he asks: “How will I provide for my children today? I can bear the hunger, but what about my children?”

“We have become unable to buy or find food in the markets. We live in daily hunger, because the most needed commodity, flour, is not available in sufficient quantities. We are in a situation where we cannot buy food, even if we have money. Those who have money and those who do not have money are the same. Purchasing value has disappeared.”

Younis Abu Odeh, a 32-year-old who is displaced in Gaza, says he feels as if Palestinians have been “put on a chicken farm and starved”.

“We are living through a war of extermination, famine, and psychological warfare,” Mr Odeh told The Independent. “A war of displacement, a war of tents, a war of heat and sun.”

The Israeli government insists it is not causing a famine. Spokesperson David Mencer said that the “manmade shortage” of food has been “engineered by Hamas”.

Mr Mencer said on Wednesday that more than 4,400 aid trucks had entered Gaza between 19 and 22 July, containing food, flour and baby food.

The deepening crisis came as Israel brought its delegation home from the Gaza ceasefire talks on Thursday after Hamas delivered a new response to a proposal for a truce and a hostages deal.

The Israeli prime minister’s office thanked mediators for their efforts and said the negotiators were returning home for “further consultations”. Earlier it said Israel was reviewing the response from Hamas.

In his statement, Sir Keir said: “It is hard to see a hopeful future in such dark times. But I must reiterate my call for all sides to engage in good faith, and at pace, to bring about an immediate ceasefire, and for Hamas to unconditionally release all hostages. We strongly support the efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt to secure this.

“We are clear that statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. A ceasefire will put us on a path to the recognition of a Palestinian state and a two-state solution, which guarantees peace and security for Palestinians and Israelis.” (Palestinians in Gaza have become ‘walking corpses’, says UN as hunger crisis deepens.)

Remember, the Zionists have treated the Palestinians as subhumans since they invaded Palestine in 1948 and began their work of throwing Palestinians out of their homes, stealing their properties, and placing many of them in “relocation centers” behind chain link fencing. The bombings of civilian population centers and the starvation of innocent human beings comes quite naturally to the Zionists event though Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not believe there is any starvation taking place in Gaza despite his refusal to open up the area to provide generous amounts of food and other humanitarian aid to reach people are dropping dead because of organ failure caused by malnutrition.

This starvation in Gaza has become so undeniable to anyone but Netanyahu and his fellow Zionist fanatics that even President Donald John Trump, who has always been an uncritical supporter of the Zionist State of Israel, is calling it by its proper name:

PRESIDENT TRUMP on Monday broke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the hunger crisis in Gaza, adding to a steady drumbeat of international pressure on Israel.

Trump weighed in during his multiday trip to Scotland as images of starving Gazan civilians — including many children — spread globally, provoking anger from critics and allies alike.

Netanyahu said over the weekend “there is no starvation” in Gaza and that claims to the contrary are a “bold-faced lie.”

But Trump said Monday there is “real starvation” happening. He said the U.S. would assist with the creation of “food centers” in Gaza, though details are scant at the moment.

“We’re going to be getting some good, strong food. We can save a lot of people,” Trump said at a press conference in Scotland with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “Some of those kids — that’s real starvation. I see it. And you can’t fake that. So we’re going to be even more involved.”

“We’re going to do it in conjunction with some very good people, and we’re going to supply funds. … And other nations are joining us,” Trump added.  

The Israeli military briefly paused fighting in parts of Gaza over the weekend to allow for aid to get through, as news reports and humanitarian groups claimed Israel had blocked aid from entering Gaza.

Jewish Insider reports: “Israel over the weekend announced a series of measures aimed at alleviating the widespread malnutrition and security issues in the enclave, including temporary ceasefires, aid airdrops, facilitating a massive increase in Gaza’s water supply and establishing designated humanitarian corridors — even as the IDF called claims of starvation in Gaza ‘a false campaign promoted by Hamas’.”

Trump said Monday that “Israel can do a lot” to end the starvation.

However, Trump and other GOP officials have accused Hamas of stealing aid that is meant for starving civilians.

The president also blamed Hamas for failing to reach a ceasefire deal, saying they’ve been “very difficult” to negotiate with. The Palestinian militant group has refused to release remaining hostages, complicating negotiations.

Peace talks between Israel and Hamas crumbled last week, with Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff saying Hamas had shown a “lack of desire” to reach a truce. U.S. and Israeli officials have said they’re looking at “alternative options” to end the war.

Still, the international pressure campaign against Israel over the hunger crisis is growing and could be further enflamed by Trump’s break with Netanyahu.

“We need to galvanize other countries in support of getting that aid in and yes, that does involve putting pressure on Israel because it, absolutely, this is a humanitarian catastrophe now,” Starmer said during the press conference.

Several European leaders have begun calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state, led by French President Emmanuel Macron.

And some of Israel’s staunchest allies in the U.S. are warning that Israel is approaching a tipping point.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), a strong ally to Jewish Americans, told journalist Chuck Todd that Netanyahu has done “irreparable damage” to the relationship between Israel and Democrats.

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, said in a statement: “I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government and will advocate—and vote—for an end to any United States support whatsoever until there is a demonstrable change in the direction of Israeli policy.” (Trump breaks with Netanyahu on Gaza hunger crisis.)

What Donald John Trump refuses to admit, at least publicly, is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is personally responsible for the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by means of bombings and the point-blank execution of innocent civilians shot down in cold blood and by his stubborn refusal to permit humanitarian aid to reach people who he denies publicly are starving to a certain death, and this is not even to mention the fact that members of the Israeli Defense Forcs continue to fire upon aid trucks entering into Gaza from Israel:

Scores of Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday as they mobbed UN trucks in the deadliest incident linked to aid distribution since the beginning of the war.

The UN World Food Programme said its convoy carrying food “encountered massive crowds of hungry civilians which came under gunfire”, soon after it crossed the border from Israel.

At least 93 died at the scene in northern Gaza with dozens more injured, according to the Hamas-run ministry of health.

The Israeli military disputed the death toll but said its troops had fired warning shots towards a crowd of thousands to remove “an immediate threat”.

A UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, said Israeli forces opened fire toward the crowds who tried to take food from the convoy. Footage taken by the UN showed Gazans running as the sound of automatic gunfire could be heard.

“Today’s mass displacement order issued by the Israeli military has dealt yet another devastating blow to the already fragile lifelines keeping people alive across the Gaza Strip,” The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.

Ehab Al-Zei, who had been waiting for flour, said: “Suddenly, tanks surrounded us and trapped us as gunshots and strikes rained down. We were trapped for around two hours.”

Nafiz Al-Najjar, who was injured, said tanks and drones targeted people, and he saw his cousin and others shot dead.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the military “certainly does not intentionally target humanitarian aid trucks” and that “a preliminary review indicates that the reported number of casualties does not align with existing information.”

If the death toll is confirmed, however, the incident would be the deadliest single event involving those seeking aid in a string of tragedies to hit the Strip’s displaced population in over 21 months of war.

It comes as the Pope on Sunday riticized the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza, and urged against the “indiscriminate use of force” days after a deadly strike by Israel’s military on a Catholic church.

Meanwhile, White House officials are increasingly frustrated with Benjamin Netanyahu, according to leaks in the US media.

Various aides branded the Israeli prime minister a “madman” and “a child who just won’t behave”, referring to his recent bombing campaign in Syria.

“Bibi acted like a madman. He bombs everything all the time,” one official told the Axios news outlet, using the premier’s nickname.

Sunday’s killings around the aid convoy came after huge crowds tried to reach food and medicine entering through the Zikim crossing with Israel, according to Zaher al-Waheidi, head of the health ministry’s records department.

Mr al-Waheidi, a Hamas official, said another six Palestinians were killed in the Shakoush area, hundreds of metres north of a hub of the recently created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the southern city of Rafah.

The GHF, the controversial body set up by the US and Israel to distribute to run the aid hubs in Gaza, distanced itself from the killings.

“The entire aid system is under immense strain,” it said in a statement.

Deaths of civilians seeking aid have become a regular occurrence in Gaza, with the authorities blaming Israeli fire as crowds facing chronic shortages of food and other essentials flock in huge numbers to aid centres.

Seven Palestinians were also killed in tents in Khan Younis in the south in a separate incident on Sunday, including a five-year-old boy, according to the Kuwait Specialised Field Hospital, which received the casualties.

A Hamas official said the deaths and the hunger crisis in Gaza could badly affect ceasefire talks in Qatar.

The group which is blocked from controlling aid under the current system, however, has been accused in the past of preventing Gazans from reaching food parcels and fermenting hostility at aid distribution points.

The group is also known to operate amongst civilians, and officials have been accused of intentionally using Gazans and civilian infrastructure as “human shields”.

First ground operations in central Gaza

The string of killings came as ceasefire talks appeared to have stalled and Israeli troops prepared for ground operations in central Gaza for the first time since the outbreak of the Gaza war.

The IDF warned in Arabic that it was operating with “great force” as it “expands its activities into an area where it has not operated before”.

Though it has conducted air strikes in central Gaza, there have been no ground forces until now, leading many to believe hostages may be held there.

Hamas has warned that if the Israeli military approaches areas with hostages, the captives will be killed.

Families of the hostages have raised concerns over IDF expansion of ground forces into central Gaza.

In February, Hamas released Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami in Deir al-Balah, an area that until now had remained relatively calm.

“The families of hostages are shaken and fearful after the announcement by the IDF of its intent to operate in central Gaza,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement on Sunday.

“Can anyone assure us that this will not cost the lives of our loved ones? We expect the prime minister, defence minister and top military commanders to urgently explain to Israeli citizens and the families what the plan of action is and how they would protect the hostages still held in Gaza.”

The forum said that the expansion of ground operations should not be used as a “card” in negotiations for a ceasefire deal, as it poses “a tangible and immediate danger to their fate”.

“Enough! The Israeli people overwhelmingly want an end to the fighting and a comprehensive agreement that will return all the hostages,” the statement added.

Multiple polls in Israel show that a large majority of the Israeli public support an end to the war to bring the hostages home.

Deir al-Balah is also home to multiple Gazan refugees who have been displaced from other areas in the Strip, which has been razed in Israel’s retaliatory attacks after the war sparked by the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023. During the terror attack 1,200 mostly civilians were killed and 251 people taken hostage and moved to Gaza.

Fighting continues across the Strip as ceasefire talks continue in Qatar. Israel blames Hamas for delaying its response to the proposal while Hamas blames Israel for obstructing its demands.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv again on Saturday night calling on the government to make a deal to bring home the hostages.

While Israel’s war goals include the release of all hostages, only roughly 20 of whom are believed to be alive, they also insist on retaining military control in Gaza, and the complete removal of Hamas.

Hamas says it will not agree to a deal in which the Israeli military retains a presence in the Strip.

The Hamas-run ministry of health in Gaza says over 58,000 people have died in the Strip since the war began, with Israel saying at least 20,000 of those are combatants.

In recent weeks, Israel has also seen dozens of its soldiers die as the war continues to claim lives on both sides.

Three regional countries are discussing aid drops by air as a result of the chaos and killings around aid centres in the Strip, Fox News reported on Sunday.

“One of those countries is actively planning to proceed with airdrops. These discussions started three weeks ago,” a reporter from the network wrote.  (More than 90 Palestinians killed ‘by Israeli fire’ in Gaza aid truck massacre.)

As if this bloodshed is not enough, this systematic liquidation of the Palestinians in Gaza is occurring at the same time that  the Israeli Defense Forces attacked the only Catholic church in Gaza and while Israeli squatters continue to invade the West Bank and to target Catholic and Orthodox residents there while attacking Catholic churches and shrines, attacks that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV has denounced very forcefully, albeit without his counterfeit church of conciliarism is doing the Jewish and Mohammedan people no good at all by refusing to seek their conversion to the true Church so each will see Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in all others and to treat them as they would treat Him in the very Flesh:

An Israeli army strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza last week has pushed the Vatican to change its tone on Israel and blame it more directly in the dragging war -- a break from its traditional diplomacy strategy.

The strike killed three people in the Holy Family Church in the centre of Gaza City -- prompting condemnation by politicians and by religious leaders of various denominations.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday slammed the "barbarity" of the war and the blind "use of force", denouncing "the attack by the Israeli army".

It was a change of language after two years of tireless, repetitive calls for peace by the Vatican under former Pope Francis, who died in April.

Francois Mabille, an analyst at France's Geopolitical Observatory of Religion, said the statements represent an increasingly critical view of Israel in the Catholic world.

Beyond growing anger worldwide at the human cost of the Gaza war, he cited "the fact that it's happening on holy ground."

It is leading to "at least a temporary shift in Catholic opinion in general," he told AFP.

On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo -- who became pontiff in May -- and said his country "deeply regrets" the strike, blaming a "stray missile" and vowing an investigation.

Netanyahu's spokesman said the conversation was "friendly" and that the two men agreed to meet soon.

But on the same day, in an interview with Italian broadcaster Rai 2, the Vatican's second-in-command -- Cardinal Pietro Parolin -- implied the strike may have been intentional.

He called on Israel to publicise the findings of its investigation to find out "if it really was an error, which we can legitimately doubt, or if there was a will to directly attack a Christian church."

The Vatican also sent the cardinal of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, on a rare visit to Gaza Friday, where he visited the wounded and conducted a mass at the Holy Family Church.

The visit was meant to show that Catholic authorities were determined to stay in Gaza.

"We are not a target. They say it was a mistake, even if everyone here does not believe that is the case," the cardinal told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

- 'Tyrant' -

Mabille, the analyst, said the Holy See is now also using "more precise vocabulary based on legal categories."

On Sunday, the American-born pope called for the international community to "observe humanitarian law and respect the obligation to protect civilians, as well as the prohibition of collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of force, and the forced displacement of populations."

Mabille said that constituted four fundamental rights under humanitarian law that are being violated by Netanyahu's government.

Some Catholic officials are going much further.

In an interview to Italy's La Stampa newspaper, Cardinal Augusto Paolo Lojudice -- who also serves as a judge at a Vatican tribunal -- said Netanyahu is "not stopping because he is a tyrant pursuing a dark and bloodthirsty plan for power".

Lojudice -- who worked with Leo for several years before was made pope -- accused Israel of "evil without logic" in Gaza.

The Vatican, which since 2015 has recognised the state of Palestine, supports a two-state solution in Israel.

It has also called for a special international status for Jerusalem, with free and safe access to religious sites there.

Already strained ties with Israel degraded further after Israel launched its assault following Hamas's deadly October 7, 2023 attack.

Diverging from the Vatican's official line, Pope Francis questioned whether Israel's heavy handed military response amounted to "genocide" in Gaza.

The current tense diplomatic exchanges also come after a small Christian village in the central occupied West Bank was burnt down in early July and during heightened criticism of Israeli settler attacks. (Vatican hardens tone on Israel after Gaza parish strike.)

Well, there is certainly a logic to the evil that Israeli forces are doing in Gaza, and that logic is the consequence of the adversary’s hated for the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity, and thus for His redeemed creatures that must perforce inspire evil into the minds and hearts of those who souls captive to the adversary by means Original Sin.

Moreover, the attack on the Catholic church was no more of an “accident”             than was the Israeli attack upon the U.S.S. Liberty on June 8, 1967, even though Benjamin Netanyahu claimed ignorance about the Gaza attack when he spoke with “Pope Leo” last week:

In the wake of the Israeli army’s bombing of the only Catholic church in Gaza on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by telephone on Friday. He urged the Israeli leader to end hostilities, allow a swift solution to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the strip, and maintain respect for places of worship.

At around 10:20 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Holy Family Catholic Church compound “was struck by the Israeli army” killing at least three and injuring 10 others, “including one in critical condition and two in serious condition,” according to a Thursday statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

One of the injuries included Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest, who with Missionaries of Charity sisters has been serving the approximately 600 Gazans sheltering in the facility, including many children around 50 of whom have disabilities.

The morning call was reportedly initiated by Netanyahu to the pope’s summer residence at Castel Gandolfo with a Vatican press release stating the pontiff urged the Israeli leader to revive negotiations and establish a ceasefire.

“During the conversation, the Holy Father renewed his call for negotiation efforts, for a ceasefire and an end to the war,” the communique said.

“He again expressed his concern for the tragic humanitarian situation of the people in Gaza, a heartbreaking price being paid especially by children, the elderly and the sick,” the call summary continued.

“Finally, His Holiness reiterated the urgent need to protect places of worship and, especially, the faithful and all people in Palestine and Israel,” the release concluded.

Pope pledges ‘to do everything possible’ to achieve ‘an end to this tragedy’

On Friday, Pope Leo also called Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, telling him, “It is time to stop this slaughter,” as reported by Vatican News.

Pizzaballa was entering the Gaza Strip with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem leading an ecclesial delegation with hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid, including food supplies, first aid kits and desperately needed medical equipment, when Pope Leo’s call came in.

The Holy Father expressed “his closeness, care, prayer, support, and desire to do everything possible to achieve not only a ceasefire but also an end to this tragedy,” Pizzaballa said.

“Pope Leo repeatedly stated that it is time to stop this slaughter, that what has happened is unjustifiable, and that we must ensure there are no more victims,” the Patriarch reported.

Pizzaballa in turn expressed gratitude to the pontiff for “his solidarity and the prayers he had already assured us of,” on behalf of all the Churches of the Holy Land including the Catholic community of Gaza.

A statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem shared the mission of the ecclesial delegation — headed by the Catholic and Greek Orthodox patriarchs — was to “stand alongside those affected by the recent events.” Additionally, they intended to meet with members of the local Christian community” and offer them their “condolences and solidarity.”

The communiqué also highlighted that the essential humanitarian assistance from their mission was intended “not only to the Christian Community but also to as many families as possible,” and the Patriarchate “ensured the evacuation of individuals injured in the attack to medical institutions outside Gaza where they will receive care.”

An additional Friday statement from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, the body consisting of bishops from several Catholic and Orthodox rites, as well as Anglican and Lutheran communities, affirmed that “we bear witness to the heinous attack by the Israeli Army on the church compound” in Gaza the previous day.

“In unyielding unity, we strongly denounce this crime. Houses of worship are sacred spaces that should be kept safe. They are also protected under international law,” the Holy Land prelates admonished. Such targeting “is a violation of these laws” and “an affront to human dignity, a trampling upon the sanctity of human life, and the desecration of a holy site.”

These prelates continued by calling upon “world leaders and United Nations agencies to work towards an immediate ceasefire in Gaza that leads to an end of this war. We also implore them to guarantee the protection of all religious and humanitarian sites, and to provide for the relief of the starving masses throughout the Gaza Strip.”

“Our prayers and support remain steadfast, calling for justice, peace, and the cessation of the suffering that has descended upon the people of Gaza,” they concluded. (Pope Leo presses Netanyahu for Gaza ceasefire, remedy for humanitarian catastrophe.)

One can be assured that Pope Saint Pius X would have not resorted to “diplomacy” to speak the truth with the bluntness that the false “popes” of conciliarism are constitutionally incapable of using as it opposed to their falsehoods of “dialogue,” “fraternity,” and “ecumenism.” The State of Israel, although an established fact, was founded in defiance of God’s Holy Will, and such defiance leads only to the further darkening of intellects, hardening of hearts, and an arrogance that some straight from and leads back to the eternal inferno that is hell.

The situation is becoming transparently bad that even a rabid Christian Zionist such as Michael Huckabee, the American Ambassador to Israel and governor, was appalled at what he saw in the West Bank recently:

After an aggressive appeal for the defense of Christians from Israeli settler terrorist attacks in the West Bank, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the besieged town of Taybeh and released a statement condemning as “an act of terror” the “desecration” of a local church in the town and called for the prosecution of perpetrating Israeli terrorists.

After a recent attack upon the entirely indigenous Christian town on July 7, priests from three local churches — Greek Orthodox, Latin and Melkite — issued a letter pleading for help from “international actors” amid the ongoing siege by Israeli settlers.

Jason Jones, founder and president of the Vulnerable People Project, came to their defense with advocacy online and then a formal open letter to Huckabee that in turn was signed by over 16,000 individuals.

“Israeli settlers are torching holy sites, destroying farmland, and terrorizing families,” Jones tweeted on July 8. “The priests of Taybeh are crying out for help. The world must hear them — and act.”

On July 10, Jones released his open letter to Huckabee explaining the profound fear in which these Christians live given such attacks from Israelis who reside in illegal settlements on internationally recognized Palestinian territory in the West Bank.

And such settler terrorist attacks happen “with the clear backing of Israeli officials and soldiers,” Jones explained. This is an attempt to “illegally and violently drive them out” from their property in the ongoing Zionist objective to take over the whole land.

“Where are Mike Huckabee’s statements of solidarity (with these Christians)?” Jones asked in his letter.

Amplifying the appeal from the priests in their calling upon “local and international actors” to intervene on their behalf, by “(applying) diplomatic pressure on the occupying (Israeli) authorities to halt settler actions,” Jones pointed out this included Huckabee and asked him to begin by visiting Taybeh and Bethlehem and listen “humbly to the Christian flock and their pastors.”

With a formal statement released Saturday, Huckabee reported that he made a visit to this ancient town where, as Jones explained, the community traces “their lineage all the way back to the first Jews who accepted the Gospel and received the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room.” (Mike Huckabee denounces Israeli settler attack as ‘terror’ after appeal for help by Jason Jones.)

That Mike Huckabee had to be shamed into visiting the West Bank before he would make any comment about the violence has been against Catholic and Orthodox churches and shrines speaks to the through way in which the Zionism of Theodore Herzl has infiltrated the minds and hearts of many Protestants by way of the Cyrus Scofield commentary on the Bible. It had to take another Protestant to get Huckabee’s attention, although it is not known whether the former Baptist “minister will do much more than to issue a statement without confronting Benjamin Netanyahu directly and show a willingness to criticize him directly and publicly.

Additionally, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the conciliar sect’s Latin patriarch in Jerusalem, issued his own forthright denunciation of the situation in Gaza. However, Pizzaballa’s belief that peace comes through a common respect and understanding is purely a product of Judeo-Masonic naturalism, not Catholicism:

Speaking about his recent visit to Gaza, the cardinal of Jerusalem praised the aid workers there and quoted the Scriptural passage “the meek shall inherit the earth.”

“We live in dramatically complex times: wars, social imbalances, crises of international institutions, and violence that seems the only way to assert power,” lamented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem recently.

Recounting his visit to Gaza, following Israel’s strike on the Holy Family Catholic church there, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa praised the work of those he encountered during his visit. “I tell you that what I saw is indescribable,” he said of Gaza.

Total destruction, hunger, lack of healthcare, children without schools, hospitals destroyed. But in the midst of this hell, I saw the gentle men of today: people who risk their lives to help, children who say they were saved by Jesus despite their wounds, people who share the little they have. In Israel too, there are myths that help, and we must not generalize.

Since the outbreak of hostilities Pizzaballa has emerged as one of the leading campaigners for peace: not taking a political side, but highlighting the crises faced on both sides of the conflict, with a particular emphasis on people served by the church.

He has previously said there needs to be “new leadership with vision” in both the political and religious arenas before peace will take place, a likely indirect criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly rejected international resolutions passed at the United Nations to bring the conflict to a halt.

Speaking at Assisi, Pizzabala echoed this theme:

Peace will not be born from bombs or government decisions, but from the ability to look each other in the eye, to recognize each other as brothers. Our task is not to let pain fill our hearts, but to keep hope alive through concrete gestures of humanity. This is what truly matters, and this is what will save us. (Pizzaballa: I saw 'total destruction' in Gaza.)

Writing one hundred two years, seven months, seven days ago, Pope Pius XI explained that Catholicism—and Catholicism alone—is the foundation a true peace wherein men are united by the common bonds of the Faith, which can calm passions while enlightening minds and softening hearts when men are of truly good will and ready to forgive as they have been forgiven and to seek justice without malice or vengeance:

When, therefore, governments and nations follow in all their activities, whether they be national or international, the dictates of conscience grounded in the teachings, precepts, and example of Jesus Christ, and which are binding on each and every individual, then only can we have faith in one another's word and trust in the peaceful solution of the difficulties and controversies which may grow out of differences in point of view or from clash of interests. An attempt in this direction has already and is now being made; its results, however, are almost negligible and, especially so, as far as they can be said to affect those major questions which divide seriously and serve to arouse nations one against the other. No merely human institution of today can be as successful in devising a set of international laws which will be in harmony with world conditions as the Middle Ages were in the possession of that true League of Nations, Christianity. It cannot be denied that in the Middle Ages this law was often violated; still it always existed as an ideal, according to which one might judge the acts of nations, and a beacon light calling those who had lost their way back to the safe road.

There exists an institution able to safeguard the sanctity of the law of nations. This institution is a part of every nation; at the same time it is above all nations. She enjoys, too, the highest authority, the fullness of the teaching power of the Apostles. Such an institution is the Church of Christ. She alone is adapted to do this great work, for she is not only divinely commissioned to lead mankind, but moreover, because of her very make-up and the constitution which she possesses, by reason of her age-old traditions and her great prestige, which has not been lessened but has been greatly increased since the close of the War, cannot but succeed in such a venture where others assuredly will fail. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

It is possible to sum up all We have said in one word, "the Kingdom of Christ." For Jesus Christ reigns over the minds of individuals by His teachings, in their hearts by His love, in each one's life by the living according to His law and the imitating of His example. Jesus reigns over the family when it, modeled after the holy ideals of the sacrament of matrimony instituted by Christ, maintains unspotted its true character of sanctuary. In such a sanctuary of love, parental authority is fashioned after the authority of God, the Father, from Whom, as a matter of fact, it originates and after which even it is named. (Ephesians iii, 15) The obedience of the children imitates that of the Divine Child of Nazareth, and the whole family life is inspired by the sacred ideals of the Holy Family. Finally, Jesus Christ reigns over society when men recognize and reverence the sovereignty of Christ, when they accept the divine origin and control over all social forces, a recognition which is the basis of the right to command for those in authority and of the duty to obey for those who are subjects, a duty which cannot but ennoble all who live up to its demands. Christ reigns where the position in society which He Himself has assigned to His Church is recognized, for He bestowed on the Church the status and the constitution of a society which, by reason of the perfect ends which it is called upon to attain, must be held to be supreme in its own sphere; He also made her the depository and interpreter of His divine teachings, and, by consequence, the teacher and guide of every other society whatsoever, not of course in the sense that she should abstract in the least from their authority, each in its own sphere supreme, but that she should really perfect their authority, just as divine grace perfects human nature, and should give to them the assistance necessary for men to attain their true final end, eternal happiness, and by that very fact make them the more deserving and certain promoters of their happiness here below.

It is, therefore, a fact which cannot be questioned that the true peace of Christ can only exist in the Kingdom of Christ -- "the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ." It is no less unquestionable that, in doing all we can to bring about the re-establishment of Christ's kingdom, we will be working most effectively toward a lasting world peace. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

The path to the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ runs through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, and it is up to us to plant the seeds for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our state-in-life permits, so that the world will come to view  any and all naturalistic approaches to “peace” as nothing other than actual impediments to the very peace that the naturalists and their conciliar enablers claim to promote.

True peace is impossible without a firm belief in and adherence to Christ the King as He is made manifest to one and all through His Catholic Church so that one and all will exclaim in unison:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus, Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saints Abdon and Sennen, pray for us.