Jewish settlers burn old church in Jerusalem[ 30/10/2010 - 08:43 AM ]
Zakaria Al-Mashriqi, a leader in the church, denounced in a press release the "sinful crime" that targets destabilizing relations among heavenly religions and inciting strife in addition to expelling Palestinians from the holy city through such repeated attacks on citizens and their property.
He added that the church was built in Jerusalem in 1897, and housed the Palestinian Bible College until 1948, when parishioners were pushed out by Jewish armed gangs during the violence accompanying the creation of the state of Israel.
He said that right-wing Israeli settlers broke a number of windows of the two-storey church and hurled Molotov cocktails inside it completely burning the first floor.
Mashriqi appealed for urgent intervention to protect the holy places in Jerusalem and called on the Israeli government to act responsibly and condemn the attack, and work on investigating the attack to find out who was involved and file charges in the case.
The world community must shoulder its responsibility toward protecting the holy shrines and Palestinians in the city, he said, calling for shunning violence and for dialog among religions.
[ 30/10/2010 - 03:19 PM ]
DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Hamas condemned on Saturday the extremist Jewish settlers' assault on a church in the western sector of occupied Jerusalem last night, holding the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) fully responsible for such a "disgraceful" act.
The movement said in a statement that the crime was reminiscent of the IOA "racist policy" that is hostile to heavenly religions and of the Judaization scheme of Jerusalem.
Hamas called on the Palestinian people to stand up to such racist practices, and asked the international organizations to assume their responsibilities and pressure the IOA to halt its incessant crimes against the Palestinian people and their Islamic and Christian holy shrines that violated all international laws, norms, and ethics.
For its part, the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine expressed utter dismay at the Jewish settlers' attack on a church in Jerusalem on Friday.
Zahi Nujaidat, a spokesman for the movement, said in a press release that the Islamic movement denounces in the strongest words the crime of burning the church, which falls in line with the series of assaults on holy shrines.
A group of Jewish settlers on Friday night threw firebombs into the two-storey church completely burning its first floor.
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