Bomb damages entrance of Catholic school in Gaza

Published: 2008-05-16

JERUSALEM (CNS) -- A bomb by unknown assailants damaged the entrance of a Catholic school in Gaza May 16. Father Manuel Musallam of Gaza's Holy Family Catholic Church said there were no injuries in the early-morning explosion that, according to The Associated Press, was powerful enough to be heard in the surrounding neighborhood. Father Musallam said, however, that it was a small explosion and damaged only the front gate of the Zahwa Rosary School where both Christian and Muslim students study. Two nuns were in their convent adjacent to the school when the explosion occurred. "The sisters were very terrified in the morning," said Father Musallam. Last June, unknown assailants ransacked the school and convent. That attack took place during a week of heavy fighting between the rival Palestinian forces of Islamist Hamas and secular Fatah. At the end of the fighting, Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip.

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