Israel, Catholic leaders clash over Gaza as a ‘just war’

ROME – In the latest sign of tension between Israel and Catholic leaders over the conflict in Gaza, the Israeli embassy to the Holy See has blasted a recent statement from a commission representing Church leaders in the Holy Land denying that Israel’s offensive can be described as a “just war.”

“It should be lamented that a group of people from the Catholic Church has decided to issue a document that, using religious pretext and linguistic stunts, does nothing else than de facto objecting...