Catholic Church says 2 killed as apparent Israeli raid hits Gaza church

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<p>Haley OttJuly 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM</p>

<p>The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees the Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City, said Thursday that several people were injured in "a raid" on the church, including the Parish Priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli. The patriarchate later said two people were killed in the incident.</p>

<p>"With deep sorrow the Latin Patriarchate can now confirm that two persons were killed as a result of an apparent strike by the Israeli army that hit the Holy Family Compound this morning," the patriarchate said in a statement. "We pray for the rest of their souls and for the end of this barbaric war. Nothing can justify the targeting of innocent civilians."</p>

<p>Earlier on Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said "Israeli raids on Gaza" had hit the Church of the Holy Family, condemning "the attacks against the civilian population that Israel has been carrying out for months" as unacceptable.</p>

<p>"No military action can justify such behavior," the Italian leader said on social media.</p>

<p>The Israel Defense Forces said it was "aware of reports regarding damage caused to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City and casualties at the scene. The circumstances of the incident are under review."</p>

<p>بيان صحفي أولي من البطريركية اللاتينية - Press Release of Latin Patriarchate pic.twitter.com/7jvPuTPDPN</p>

<p>— Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (@LPJerusalem) July 17, 2025</p>

<p>"The IDF makes every feasible effort to mitigate harm to civilians and civilian structures, including religious sites, and regrets any damage caused to them," the military said in the statement, which it shared on social media.</p>

<p>Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "Israel expresses deep sorrow over the damage to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City and over any civilian casualty," and said the result of the IDF's investigation would be "published transparently."</p>

<p>"Israel never targets churches or religious sites and regrets any harm to a religious site or to uninvolved civilians," the foreign ministry said.</p>

<p>Earlier Thursday, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem said several people were injured in the strike, including Father Gabriel Romanelli, the Parish Priest of the church, and that "the Church sustained damage."</p>

<p>Father Carlos (center) from the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, assists casualties injured in an apparent Israeli strike on the church at the city's Al-Ahli Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital, July 17, 2025. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP/Getty</p>

<p>CBS News' team in Gaza saw Romanelli being brought to the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City. He appeared to have sustained an injury to his right leg.</p>

<p>The Italian Catholic news agency SIR reported earlier that six people were injured at the church, two of whom it said were in critical condition.</p>

<p>It said the parish had been housing around 500 displaced Christians, but Fadel Naem, the acting director of Al-Ahli Hospital, told The there were both Christians and Muslims sheltering at the church, including a number of children with disabilities.</p>

<p>Father Gabriel Romanelli, Parish Priest of the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family, censes during Christmas Eve Mass at the church in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Dec. 24, 2024, amid the war in the besieged Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP/Getty</p>

<p>The late Pope Francis would regularly call Romanelli to check in with him and the people staying in the church during the war in Gaza. In his final public appearance, one day before his death, Francis called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as well as the release of Israeli hostages.</p>

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Investor Andreessen to take stand to defend his role in Facebook privacy case

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<p>Tom HalsJuly 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM</p>

<p>By Tom Hals</p>

<p>WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Famed investor Marc Andreessen is scheduled to take the stand on Thursday to defend his role on the Facebook board of directors when it was hit with a $5 billion fine in 2019 for alleged violations of an agreement with a U.S. regulator to protect user privacy.</p>

<p>Shareholders of Meta Platforms hope to hold the co-founder of the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, along with Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others, liable for more than $8 billion in fines and legal costs the company paid in recent years to resolve claims that it had violated a 2012 agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.</p>

<p>The FTC fined Facebook $5 billion in 2019 for failing to comply with that agreement, which is central to the case.</p>

<p>Zuckerberg is expected to take the stand on Monday.</p>

<p>The shareholders want the 11 defendants to use their personal wealth to reimburse the company. The defendants have denied the allegations, which they have called "extreme claims."</p>

<p>Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021. The company is not a defendant and declined to comment.</p>

<p>The non-jury trial before Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick that began on Wednesday is scheduled to run through the end of next week in Delaware's Court of Chancery.</p>

<p>A ruling in the case, which will mostly focus on decade-old events and board meetings, will likely take months after the trial.</p>

<p>Andreessen's appearance comes after his firm last week said it was changing its state of incorporation to Nevada from Delaware, where the majority of U.S. publicly traded companies are based. His firm cited the lack of certainty in Delaware courts, pointing to two rulings, including one by McCormick last year to rescind Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package from Tesla.</p>

<p>Most publicly traded U.S. companies are incorporated in Delaware, whose state budget relies on fees from chartering businesses. After his pay package was rescinded, Musk led his companies to incorporate in Texas from Delaware and encouraged others to follow, though only a handful have done so.</p>

<p>Delaware's lawmakers this year overhauled the state's corporate law in a bid to prevent companies from leaving.</p>

<p>Joel Fleming, an attorney who represents Meta shareholders, questioned if Andreessen's firm was trying to pressure the court, which he said would fail.</p>

<p>"It's a ham-fisted attempt to do what Elon Musk did -- to huff and puff and send a message to the Court of Chancery," said Fleming.</p>

<p>A spokesperson for the Andreessen Horowitz firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>

<p>The case will also feature testimony from former Facebook board members Peter Thiel, Palantir Technologies co-founder, and Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix.</p>

<p>Meta investors allege in the lawsuit that former and current board members completely failed to oversee the company's compliance with the 2012 FTC agreement and claim that Zuckerberg and former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg knowingly ran Facebook as an illegal data harvesting operation.</p>

<p>The case followed revelations that data from millions of Facebook users was accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct political consulting firm that worked for Donald Trump's successful U.S. presidential campaign in 2016. Those revelations led to the FTC fine, which was a record at the time.</p>

<p>On Wednesday, an expert witness for the plaintiffs testified about what he called "gaps and weaknesses" in Facebook's privacy policies but would not say if the company violated the 2012 agreement that Facebook reached with the FTC.</p>

<p>Jeffrey Zients, a former board member, testified on Wednesday that the company did not agree to the FTC fine to spare Zuckerberg legal liability, as shareholders allege.</p>

<p>On its website, the company has said it has invested billions of dollars into protecting user privacy since 2019.</p>

<p>(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware;Editing by Noeleen Walder and David Gregorio)</p>

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On This Date: Another Deadly Guadalupe River Texas Flash Flood

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<p>Jonathan ErdmanJuly 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM</p>

<p>Earlier this month, the Guadalupe River, Texas, flash flood was the nation's deadliest rainfall flood in almost 50 years. Unfortunately, this same river has a notorious history.</p>

<p>On July 17, 1987, 38 years ago today, a wall of water roared down the Guadalupe River after 10 to 12 inches of rain fell west of Hunt in Kerr County.</p>

<p>That day, over 300 kids were wrapping up a church camp along the river near the town of Comfort, about 30 miles downstream from where the torrential rain occurred the previous night. The National Weather Service issued its first flash flood warning at 1:01 a.m. for both nearby Kerr and Real counties.</p>

<p>At both 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., local law enforcement warned the camp of the flood wave, and the camp was then evacuated by buses and a van.</p>

<p>Finding one low water crossing already flooded, the buses tried another route, according to the National Weather Service. But the final bus stalled in flood water and the van behind it then became stranded.</p>

<p>Tragically, as those stranded were trying to scurry to dry ground, the wall of water well over 6 feet high hit them, scattering 43 people into the raging torrent.</p>

<p>While a series of helicopter rescues saved 33 lives, some of whom were clinging to trees, 10 children drowned in the flood.</p>

<p>Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.</p>

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ICE data shows less than 1% of deportees had murder convictions

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<p>Margaret Brennan July 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM</p>

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<p>President Trump campaigned on a vow to round up the "worst of the worst" offenders among the criminals who were living illegally inside the United States. But CBS News has obtained deportation data that indicates the Trump administration's deportation push has ensnared many undocumented immigrants without violent criminal records.</p>

<p>Of the estimated 100,000 people who were deported between January 1 and June 24 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 70,583 were convicted criminals, according to an ICE document obtained by CBS News. However, the data also shows that most of the documented infractions were traffic or immigration offenses.</p>

<p>The ICE document listed out raw data that was broken down by conviction, not by deportee.</p>

<p>Some 2,355 of the convictions had to do with sex offenses, making up 1.8% of the total number of criminals who were deported. Another 1,628, or 1.2%, were for sexual assault. The number of homicide convictions totaled 729, or 0.58% of criminal deportees, and the number of convicted kidnappers was 536, or 0.42%.</p>

<p>About 10,738 convictions were for assault, or 15.2% of criminal deportees, the data showed.</p>

<p>ICE's public messaging about its deportation push has focused on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records, highlighting deportees who were convicted of murder, sex offenses and other violent crimes.</p>

<p>Another stated goal of the Trump administration was to remove those with ties to criminal organizations. The CBS News-obtained document shows that 3,256 of the more than 100,000 people removed, or 3.26%, were known or suspected gang members or terrorists.</p>

<p>In response to a CBS News inquiry, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said ICE has now deported about 140,000 undocumented immigrants since Mr. Trump took office. She also added that 70% of those arrested by ICE were of "illegal aliens with criminal convictions or have pending criminal charges." McLaughlin declined to detail the nature of the convictions or criminal charges, or offer further specifics.</p>

<p>Back on June 11, six Republican lawmakers who are members of the Congressional Hispanic Conference wrote to ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons to urge the Trump administration to prioritize the detention of violent offenders, convicted criminals and national security threats. ICE has now responded to that inquiry for the first time with figures of those deported since Jan. 1.</p>

<p>The Republicans who signed the letter include the conference's chair, Rep. Tony Gonzalez of Texas, along with Reps. Monica De La Cruz of Texas, Nicole Malliotakis of New York, David Valadao of California, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida and Gabe Evans of Colorado.</p>

<p>ICE arrests have soared since Mr. Trump took office, averaging 1,200 per day in the first three weeks of June, according to internal figures previously reported by CBS News. White House adviser Stephen Miller has pushed the agency to aim for 3,000 arrests per day, a more-than-twofold increase that has led to pressure on ICE leadership.</p>

<p>An increasingly large share of people held in ICE deteintion do not have criminal records, CBS News has previously reported. Around 40% of the agency's detainees since Mr. Trump took office had criminal convictions of some kind with 8% of them convicted of violent crimes.</p>

<p>Mr. Trump and top administration officials have said their focus is on arresting and deporting people with serious criminal records.</p>

<p>"The violent criminals in our country are the priority now," Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters last month.</p>

<p>White House "border czar" Tom Homan says the administration's primary focus is on the "worst" offenders, but he has long said any undocumented immigrant could be subject to arrest.</p>

<p>"If you're in the country illegally, you are not off the table," Homan said at an event in Texas this week. "We prioritize the worst, first. That makes sense. But it doesn't mean you prioritize this group and everybody else is good to go."</p>

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Justice Department fires Maurene Comey, prosecutor on Epstein case and daughter of ex-FBI director

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<p>ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER July 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM</p>

<p>FILE - Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey is outside court during the Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a federal prosecutor in Manhattan who worked on the cases against Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, three people familiar with the matter told The on Wednesday.</p>

<p>There was no specific reason given for her firing, according to one of the people. They spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.</p>

<p>Maurene Comey was a veteran lawyer in the Southern District of New York, long considered the most elite of the Justice Department's prosecution offices. Her cases included the sex trafficking prosecution of Epstein, who killed himself behind bars in 2019 as he was awaiting trial, and the recent case against Combs, which ended earlier this month with a mixed verdict.</p>

<p>She didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment Wednesday.</p>

<p>It's the latest move by the Justice Department to fire lawyers without explanation, which has raised alarm over a disregard for civil service protections designed to prevent terminations for political reasons. The Justice Department has also fired a number of prosecutors who worked on cases that have provoked President Donald Trump's ire, including some who handled U.S. Capitol riot cases and lawyers and support staff who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions of Trump.</p>

<p>Maurene Comey was long seen as a potential target given her father's fraught relationship over the last decade with the Republican president. The Justice Department recently appeared to acknowledge the existence of an investigation into James Comey, though the basis for that inquiry is unclear.</p>

<p>Most recently, she was the lead prosecutor among six female prosecutors in the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Combs. The failure to convict the hip-hop mogul of the main charges, while gaining a conviction on prostitution-related charges that will likely result in a prison sentence of just a few years, was viewed by some fellow lawyers as a rare defeat by prosecutors.</p>

<p>But she was successful in numerous other prosecutions, most notably the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges for helping financier Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. In that case, she delivered a rebuttal argument during closings, as she did in the Combs case.</p>

<p>Her firing comes as Attorney General Pam Bondi faces intense criticism from some members of Trump's base for the Justice Department's decision not to release any more evidence in the government's possession from Epstein's sex trafficking investigation. Some right-wing internet personalities, like Laura Loomer, who have been critical of Bondi's handling of the Epstein files had been calling for Maurene Comey's firing.</p>

<p>James Comey was the FBI director when Trump took office in 2017, having been appointed by then-President Barack Obama and serving before that as a senior Justice Department official in President George W. Bush's administration. But his relationship with Trump was strained from the start, and the FBI director resisted a request by Trump at a private dinner to pledge personal loyalty to the president — an overture that so unnerved the FBI director that he documented it in a contemporaneous memorandum.</p>

<p>Trump soon after fired Comey amid an investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign. That inquiry, later taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, would ultimately find that while Russia interfered with the 2016 election and the Trump team welcomed the help, there was insufficient evidence to prove a criminal collaboration.</p>

<p>Trump's fury at the older Comey continued long after firing him from the bureau, blaming him for a "hoax" and "witch hunt" that shadowed much of his first term.</p>

<p>Comey disclosed contemporaneous memos of his conversations with Trump to a friend so that their content could be revealed to the media, and the following year he published a book calling Trump "ego driven" and likening him to a mafia don. Trump, for his part, has accused Comey and other officials of treason.</p>

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<p>reporter Larry Neumeister in New York contributed.</p>

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