Fears are mounting over the future of Christians in Gaza following an outbreak of war between Israel and the terror group Hamas, with one Catholic leader saying he was worried the community will vanish completely.
Franciscan Fr Francesco Patton, the Custos of the Holy Land, said Palestinian Christians would be doing their utmost to escape the Palestinian territory amid hundreds of rocket attacks and an imminent ground invasion by Israeli forces following the biggest slaughter of civilians in the history of the Jewish state by terrorists on Saturday.
