The man spent the night in custody and was released the next morning to two days of house arrest in exchange for a 3,000-shekel ($913) bond. The assailants were released under restrictive conditions on the day of the attack.
A reporter in Gaza finds a Catholic community grieving their family members killed by Israeli bombs, but still worshipping together.
‘These actions are part of a systematic policy aimed at dismantling the authentic Christian presence in Palestine,’ says the Higher Presidential Committee of Church Affairs in Palestine.
“Shame on you,” says Father Jacques Noble-Abed of Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank, referring to US evangelicals who support Israel. “Because this is not the teaching of Jesus in the Gospel.”
As Israel continues its assault on Gaza, US conservatives are taking special note of one form of Israeli belligerence: attacks on Christians in the Holy Land.
Appeals and negotiations won’t make Israel stop starving Gaza
Bus explosion in Tel Aviv, no injuries; in Jerusalem, Jewish man attacks Israeli woman with axe, mistaking her for a Christian; Bibas family; 8-year-old Palestinian girl blinded by Israeli bullet; more.