The Vatican has expressed doubts about Israeli statements saying an attack on a Catholic church in the Gaza Strip was a mistake, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said on Italian television channel Rai. The Cardinal secretary of state,

Fr. Gabriel Romanelli described the carnage from a recent shelling of his parish and asked the universal church community for prayers. "Let's try to convince the whole world to end this war," he said.

Father Gabriel Romanelli, the local priest, sustained "light injuries" in the strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza, officials said.