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The Ministry of Tourism now describes the past year as “successful,” reporting 1.3 million international arrivals Photo: Israel Hayom

Holy Land•Justice and Peace•Persecuted Christians

53 Humanitarian Organizations Denounce «False Narratives» to Sabotage Those Saving Lives in Palestine

53 international humanitarian organizations operating in the Palestinian Territories have denounced that “the recent registration measures adopted by Israel will hinder crucial humanitarian action, at a time in which the civilian population faces serious and widespread need, notwithstanding the cease-fire in Gaza.”

Holy Land•Justice and Peace•Religious Freedom

The Jewish state of Israel bans Caritas, the charitable arm of the Church (and more than 20 humanitarian organizations), from Gaza

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem issued a formal statement defending Caritas Jerusalem, stressing that it is not a conventional NGO but an ecclesiastical juridical person operating under the authority of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land. Its legal status, the Patriarchate recalls, was explicitly recognized by the State of Israel through bilateral agreements signed with the Holy See in 1993 and 1997