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This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now Or the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

We're continuing to look at the plight of Palestinian Christians

in Gaza.

On Sunday, Pope Francis accused Israel of terrorism

after an Israeli sniper shot dead two Christian women,

an elderly woman with her adult daughter

who tried to save her at a Catholic church in Gaza City.

The shooting took place at the Holy Family Parish,

where scores of Palestinian Christians

have been trapped with little food or water.

We turn now to part two of our conversation with Philip Farach.

He is co-founder of the Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace, has relative sheltering in the Church of St. Pophirias in Gaza City.

Considered the third oldest church in the world was bombed by the Israeli forces in Gaza. Last month one of

his relatives El Hanfarah who is a beloved 84-year-old music teacher was killed

by an Israeli sniper outside the Holy

Family Church. I want to begin by playing for you a comment made by

Flehazan Nahum, the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem.

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