Extremist Settlers Burn Jerusalem Church

De Nederlandse media zullen dit niet als een terroristische aanslag zien. Ik voorspel: It never happened. It was of no interest.

29.10.10 - Jerusalem – PNN - Extremist settlers burned a [red. Ethiopische] church on Prophets Street in Jerusalem on Friday.

Zachariah al-Mashriqi , one of the leaders of the church, condemned the crime and said it was intended to destabilize relations between the religious groups. He said the attack should be seen in the context of others by extremist settlers as a way of baiting Palestinians.

The church was built in 1897 and housed the Palestinian Bible College until 1948, when most parishioners fled the old city during the Nakba.

Al-Mashriqi explained that the information he received indicated that extremist settlers broke several back windows and threw Molotov cocktails into the first floor of the church. He appealed to the political sector and the public to act quickly to protect the city’s sacred sites and called on all priests and holy men to pressure the Israeli government to pursue justice.

Al-Mashriqi also stressed the need for an international authority in Jerusalem to protect the holy sites and the Palestinian population from violence and promote interfaith dialogue.

Source: Wafa (Palestinian News and Information Agency)