Alwaght- Israeli Zionists attacked on Monday a church in the Old City of al-Quds and caused damages to the property WAFA reported.
The Palestinian news agency reported that Israeli regime police arrested two extremist Jews on racial and national grounds after they carried out the attack against the church
In December 2021, Patriarchs and heads of churches in the occupied al-Quds said extremist Jewish groups were trying to drive Christians out of the holy city, arguing that Israeli authorities have failed to curb assaults against members of the religious community and desecration of their sites.
The church leaders, in a statement, stated that the Tel Aviv regime exhibited bias against Christians and apathy about attacks on Christian holy places and clergy, warning of the “current threat to the Christian presence in the Holy Land.”
They denounced extremist groups that seize property in the Christian Quarter “with the aim of curbing the Christian presence.”
In January 2022, also, The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the occupied al-Quds said the extremist Israeli groups are threatening the presence of Christians in the holy city as the Tel Aviv regime continues assaulting places of worship.
In a column in the Times of London, Theophilos III said he believed the aim is to drive the Christian community from al-Quds Old City, which has sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
“Our presence” in al-Quds is “under threat,” the patriarch wrote in the article, adding, "Our churches are threatened by Israeli radical fringe groups.”
He went on to say that the Christian community in al-Quds is suffering greatly “at the hands of these Zionist extremists.”
Al-Quds recently has been the scene of intensified tensions between Palestinians and Israeli troops and settlers.
Israel lays claim to the entire al-Quds, but the international community views the city’s eastern sector as occupied territory.
More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law as they are built on occupied land. The United Nations Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East al-Quds as its capital.
