Joy Reid Instagram – I think people in the U.S. often forget that a substantial share of Palestinians are Christians. But it makes perfect sense. When Abraham answered the call of the Hebrew God and traveled with his family from Ur (modern day Iraq or thereabouts) to Canaan, he fathered three religions. The descendants of his eldest son with his wife’s maid Hagar (who was Egyptian) named Ishmael, was the father of Islam. His son Isaac, with his wife Sarah, is the father of Judaism. And the followers of Isaac’s descendant Jesus, created Christianity. Good on POTIFEX for looking in on the Christians of #gaza. 😭💔 Repost from @hiddenpalestine • The Pope says he calls the Catholic Church in Gaza every day. “Every evening at 7pm, I call the parish of Gaza.” “Sometimes they go hungry — there is a lot of suffering.” Last December, an Israeli sniper shot and killed a mother and a daughter on Saturday as they left the church building. On the night before the attack, bombings intensified in the area around the parish compound, injuring three people inside the church. And on the day of the sniper killing the two women, a tank fired a rocket which struck the Convent of the Missionaries of Charity, destroying the building’s generator and setting off a massive blaze. At the time, the Pope labelled Israel’s actions in Gaza as terrorism. Over 600 people, both Christian and Muslim, continue to shelter in this church to this day.