ABC News’ Gio Benitez is joined by Father James Martin reacting to an Israeli attack on a church in Gaza that killed three Palestinians and how Pope Leo XIV is renewing calls for a ceasefire.

Israel Defense Forces pushed into a central Gaza city on Monday for the first time since the war with Hamas began.

Israeli leaders said they launched attacks on Syria this week to protect members of the Druze religious group in the country’s south, amid clashes in the area.

Leaders from the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church visited Gaza’s only Catholic church on Friday, where a day earlier three people were killed in an Israeli strike.

A new, dangerous flashpoint is emerging in the Middle East as prominent Israeli hawk and former defense minister Avigdor Liberman is calling for a preemptive strike against Iran. -Liberman argues that Tehran is “obsessed” with a “war of revenge” and that Israel should strike first,

The human rights organization Amnesty International called on Tuesday for an investigation into the Israeli attack on Iran's notorious Evin prison around four weeks ago, calling it a possible war crime.

The suspect, an active member in the anti-Israel community, is accused of causing more than $800,000 in damages during the June arson attack at an