Spitting, Hitting Attacks on Christians are Surging in Israel: 'Extreme and Unacceptable'

[Starmix]

According to the report, officials in Israel are taking seriously a recent upsurge in spitting and hitting attacks on clergy, and vandalism of Christian sites. The most recent attacks led Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Israeli Police Commissioner, Maj.-Gen. Yaakov Shabtai, to meet leaders of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches of the Holy Land. "

In recent months," Herzog said, "We have seen very serious phenomena towards the Christian denominations in the Holy Land. Our brothers and sisters, Christian citizens, who feel attacked in their places of prayer, in their cemeteries, on the streets."

The report said that Christians in Jerusalem's Old City say they are often harassed, spit at, and even physically attacked by religious Jewish youths.

They need the Christian church leaders to come out and protest this kind of barbarism which has been going on for a long time. Christians who've heard about these acts are surely thinking twice about making pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

Watch the report coverage via the YouTube link.

 

[Augusta]

This is really unfair why the bad treatment to the Christians. I hope God come through for them.

 

[freelancermaria]

That is sad. What is happening to the world? People are becoming more barbaric these days. I hope the leaders of the Christian church can do something about it.

 

[Starmix]

That is sad. What is happening to the world? People are becoming more barbaric these days. I hope the leaders of the Christian church can do something about it.

The government is now taking action. Those who did it are not from Israel. These young people are outrageous, lack respect and discipline.