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A Palestinian man checks the damage after an Israeli missile apparently overshot and struck St. Philip's, Anglican ministry

Israeli attack helicopters fired 11 missiles at Gaza City early Friday, hitting a chapel in a hospital

The mother of 10-year-old Christine Saadah mourns over the body of her daughter at the Church of Nativity



A Palestinian boy wearing the traditional costume of the Franciscan monk order

Superior Archimandrite Meletios Bassal holds a candle to present the holy fire to Palestinian Christians

A Christian Palestinian child holds a cross made of palm as another looks up while celebrating Holy Fire day



Palestinian Christian clergymen and worshippers read prayers and light candles

A few hundred Palestinian Christians and foreign pilgrims attended Easter mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

A nun helps a Palestinian boy learn a verse from the Bible



Grace Karaa,15, right, a Palestinian Christian from the adjacent West Bank town of Bethlehem

Jacob Mirza, a Palestinian Christian, checks the damage to his house after Israeli troops attacked his neighbor's house

An Christian-Orthodox priest shows the damage made, according to witnesses, by Israeli troops inside the Saint Dimitros Church