GAZA (Reuters) -Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest ranking Catholic official in Jerusalem, entered Gaza on Friday to bring humanitarian aid and comfort to victims of Israel's strike on the sole Catholic church of the Palestinian enclave.

Israel said Thursday that it “deeply regrets” a deadly strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church, which killed three people. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which has jurisdiction for Latin-rite Catholics in Gaza,

Three people were killed and 10 injured in the Israeli strike Thursday on the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic church in Gaza, said the parish and the Vatican.