The announcement of a 10-hour daily suspension follows growing pressure on Israel as a deadly hunger crisis spreads across the enclave.

The aid agency says its buildings in the central part of the territory were attacked after the military targeted Deir al-Balah, which had largely been spared.

The Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City is one of three operational churches in the coastal enclave and currently shelters about 600 people. More than 21 months of war have crippled the region and led to mass starvation, according to aid groups, as Israel continues its operation to dismantle Hamas’s grip on Gaza.

Israeli forces killed at least 27 people in attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including three people who died in a strike on a church that late Pope Francis used to speak to regularly, medics and church officials said.

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.

The attack on the Israeli troops quickly drew the nation’s attention back to the grinding conflict with Hamas after nearly two weeks of war between Israel and Iran.

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.