{"id":5313,"date":"2025-11-20T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/christians-in-gaza-struggle-amid-conflict-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:07:03","slug":"christians-in-gaza-struggle-amid-conflict-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/christians-in-gaza-struggle-amid-conflict-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians in Gaza Struggle Amid Conflict, Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Gaza have suffered greatly amid the ongoing regional conflict that began on Oct. 7, 2023. &ldquo;We had about 900 [Christians], and after the war about 200 of them, at least, left Gaza,&rdquo; said Pastor Hanna Massad of Christian Mission to Gaza. He also said that living conditions for those who remained have been difficult: &ldquo;It has been really hard for them. Many of them [have] lost a lot of weight.&rdquo; Many of the Christians unable to flee from Gaza are sheltering in a Catholic church, which was struck by an Israeli tank shell on July 17, 2025, killing three people. A priest and a relative of Rami Ayyad were among those killed. Rami was the former manager of the only Christian bookstore in Gaza and was killed by Islamists in 2007 for his faith and ministry activities. The Israeli government claimed the strike on the church was a mistake and is investigating. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/israel\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Christian persecution in Israel and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2904\/christians-in-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post a prayer for Christians in Gaza on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Gaza have suffered greatly amid the ongoing regional conflict that began on Oct. 7, 2023. &#8220;We had about 900 [Christians], and after the war about 200 of them, at least, left Gaza,&#8221; said Pastor Hanna Massad of Christian Mission to Gaza. He also said that living conditions for those who remained have been difficult: &#8220;It has been really hard for them. Many of them [have] lost a lot of weight.&#8221; Many of the Christians unable to flee from Gaza are sheltering in a Catholic church, which was struck by an Israeli tank shell on July 17, 2025, killing three people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-commit-to-pray","tag-israel","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christians in Gaza Struggle Amid Conflict, Attack - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/christians-in-gaza-struggle-amid-conflict-attack\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christians in Gaza Struggle Amid Conflict, Attack - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christians in Gaza have suffered greatly amid the ongoing regional conflict that began on Oct. 7, 2023. &quot;We had about 900 [Christians], and after the war about 200 of them, at least, left Gaza,&quot; said Pastor Hanna Massad of Christian Mission to Gaza. 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