AMMAN — Two Israeli settlers on Sunday morning tried
morning to attack the Church of Gethsemane in occupied Jerusalem, according to
the Palestinian Authority’s Governorate of Jerusalem.
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The governorate said two
Israeli settlers broke into the church and tried to sabotage the content inside the church, but were confronted
and foiled by a Palestinian man who was present at the church, according to
Ahram online.
Israeli government ‘sponsor of all
the crimes committed by settlers’The Palestinian Presidential Committee of Church Affairs
condemned the failed attack. Chairman of the Committee, Ramzi Khoury, said in a
press statement, “The extremist and
fascist Israeli government is the sponsor
of all the crimes committed by settlers against the Palestinian people and
against Islamic and Christian sanctities.”
Khoury urged "the UN, the International Criminal
Court and the churches of the world to take urgent and immediate action to stop
all Israeli racist and extremist practices, to provide protection for the Palestinian
people and Islamic and Christian sanctities, and to ensure the implementation
of relevant international laws".
Christians targeted by ‘radical
groups’Earlier this year, Israeli settlers vandalized a
Christian cemetery in occupied Jerusalem over the New Year holidays, smashing
crosses and knocking down headstones on more than 30 graves.
In December 2021, patriarchs and heads of churches in
Jerusalem warned that "Christians have become the target of frequent and
sustained attacks by fringe radical groups", referring to Israeli
far-right activists.
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