Israel makes rare apology
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A day later, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel responded in a letter obtained by the Times of Israel, defending his ministry’s conduct and expressing surprise at Huckabee’s broad circulation of his complaints, which were copied to top Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.
Pope Leo XIV urged “an immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. Not long before, an Israeli strike had hit Gaza’s sole Catholic Church, killing three people who had been sheltering there and injuring 10 more.