AMMAN – Israeli
settlers vandalized a church in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem earlier
today, according to a press statement issued by the Governorate of Jerusalem,
Wafa reported.
اضافة اعلان
Three extremist Jewish
settlers stormed the Church of the Condemnation, located at the Second Station
of the Via Dolorosa, smashing a statute of Jesus and attempting to set fire to
the church, according to the statement.
The church’s guard restrained
the vandals before they could inflict further damage on the site.
This is just one of several
attacks by settlers against Christians and their property in Jerusalem over the
past few months.
On January 26, settlers attacked an Armenian restaurant
at the New Gate in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem, according to local
sources in Jerusalem.
The group of radical settlers
attacked a group of diners, mostly Armenians, who were eating at the Taboon
Wine Bar, with video footage showing the Jewish extremists throwing chairs
toward the restaurant and its patron.
On January 4, two teenage
Jewish extremists were caught by security cameras vandalizing 30 graves in a
Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion.
The vandals smashed headstones, threw rocks onto graves, and
broke crosses marking the burial places of the dead, causing approximately
$100,000 in damages.
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