What the records say
- When
- 19 Oct 2023
- Kind
- Military operation
- Deaths
- 18
- Coordinates
- 31.50° N, 34.46° E
- Description
- 19 October 2023 bombing in Gaza
Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike
2023 bombing of a church in Gaza City, Palestine
On 19 October 2023, during the Gaza war, a building in the compound of the Church of Saint Porphyrius, a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City, was destroyed during an Israeli airstrike, killing 18 Palestinian civilians and injuring between 12 and "at least 20". Some 450 Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip, mainly Christians, had been sheltering in the compound. The church building itself was not damaged.
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