The strike killed three people and wounded 10 others.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 7, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express his displeasure with the Israeli military’s strike on a Catholic church in Gaza on July 17, said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“It was not a positive reaction. He called Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning to address the strikes on that church in Gaza,” Leavitt told reporters.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.