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Church Leaders, Diplomats, Condemn Israeli Settler Violence in West Bank
WEST BANK, JUL 14 – Church leaders and diplomats call for accountability amid over 2,150 settler attacks in the West Bank this year, highlighting threats to Palestinian Christian communities and heritage sites.
- Christian religious leaders and diplomats visited the predominantly Christian village of Taybeh, located in the West Bank under Israeli occupation, to speak out against recent violent attacks by Israeli settlers targeting the local community and its holy sites.
- The increase in settler violence follows Israel's war on Gaza that began in October 2023, which has intensified tensions and attacks across the West Bank.
- Settlers have set fires near a 5th century church and cemetery, attacked homes, destroyed water wells, and uprooted roughly 1,500 olive saplings in villages like Taybeh and al-Maniya.
- Palestinian officials reported more than two thousand incidents involving illegal settler violence in the occupied areas during the first six months of this year, which led to the deaths of four Palestinians and caused many others to be displaced.
- Church leaders called for immediate investigations and Israeli accountability, warning the violence threatens local communities, religious heritage, and risks prompting Christian emigration from the West Bank.
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The two most senior church leaders in the Holy Land on July 14 toured the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, which has been the scene of repeated attacks by Israeli settlers in recent weeks. In a joint statement, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, called the settler attacks a threat to Christian heritage, and demanded an investigation into the …
Taybeh villagers endure settler attacks, seek intervention
CLERICS and diplomats walked as if in a religious procession through the streets of Taybeh, a small Christian village in the occupied West Bank where residents blame Israeli settlers for a spate of recent attacks. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
In Taybeh, Jesus once sought refuge. Today, the Christian-influenced place in the West Bank is a frequent target of raids and attacks. Marauding settlers harass the inhabitants. The minority feels acutely threatened – and makes serious accusations.
After the appeal of a few days ago of the Christian community of Taybeh, the last entirely Christian village remaining in the West Bank, to ask for pressure on the Israeli occupying authorities against the violence of the colonists, the leaders of the Christian community decided to raise their tones. A very detailed dossier on the ongoing attacks of the Israeli settlers is about to arrive on the table of the Holy See, at the examination of the S…
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