🇺🇸❌🇾🇪 — 🌏🪖U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Twitter/X:

— In the early morning hours of December 16 (Sanna time) the US Arliegh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS CARNEY (DDG 64), operating in the Red Sea, successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems launched as a drone wave from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.

The UAS were assessed to be one-way attack drones and were shot down with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries.

Regional Red Sea partners were alerted to the threat.

🔗 U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM)

🇮🇱❌✝️❗️ — On Today, December 16, 2023, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem - the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical patriarchate in Jerusalem, which is based in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the Tomb of Jesus Christ is placed - announced that a Sniper of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed Two Christian Women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the maority of Christian families of Gaza have taken refuge since the start of the War in Gaza Strip.

According to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Miss Nahida and her daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister's convent in Gaza.

One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety. Seven (7x) more people were shot and wounded as they tried to protect other Christians inside the church compound

Per the Statement, the IDF provided no warning or notification and the women were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the Parish, where there were no belligerents

The Latin Patriarchate also reports that a rocket fired by a IDF Tank targeted the Convent of Sisters of Mother Theresa (Missionaries of Charity), where 54 disabled persons are sheltered since the start of the hostilities and that in addition of the heavy bombing of the area, 3x more people were wounded inside the Church compound last night.

This happens just 9 days away from Christmas, the 2nd most important Holiday for Western Christian churches.

🔗 Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (@LPJerusalem)