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17.05.02, 00:16
On Mt. Zion in Jerusalem Israeli forces first seized then looted various
churches and
convents. Gold and silver religious objects were taken and the churches and
convents
turned into military posts. The soldiers desecrated and vandalized the Armenian
and
Greek Orthodox cemeteries. Fourteen tombs of Christian patriarchs were smashed
open and their contents desecrated. In the Greek Orthodox cemetery practically
every
tomb was smashed. Many graves were dynamited or ripped open. Fragments of
marble crosses, angles' wings and inscriptions lie inextricably mixed with human
skeletons and skulls, blackened tree stumps, and the remains of rockets and
shells.
"The Jews actually dragged the corpses out of the tombs and scattered the
coffins
and remains of the dead all around the cemetery." The Very Reverend Father
Andres, Procurator-General in the Holy Land writing in 1968 of the attack on the
Catholic cemetery.
Churches were destroyed in Damound & Somata.
Christmas Day 1952 the Israeli army blew up the village of Ikret, whose
population
was 100% Catholic. Its beautiful church was destroyed and the population were
scattered to other parts of Galilee.
October 1953 the Israeli army destroyed the Christian village of Kafr Bur'om in
Galilee. Its churches and schools were demolished and the population scattered
to various parts of Galilee.
16 April 1954 Zionist attack the cemetery of the Greek Catholic Community
in Haifa. Desecration was the point- they danced on the graves; they dug up
the remains destroying many tombs, 73 crosses and 50 statues of angles were
smashed.
July 1954 Israeli fundamentalists attack a Christian religious procession
of the Carmelite Fathers and the Christian community of Haifa on Mt. Carmel
near Haifa. The procession was dispersed, many crosses were destroyed and
many Christians were injured.
12 July 1954, a Protestant Minister in Tiberias went to a house where some
families of Christian and Jews had gathered. a rabbi provoked Jews to riot
by spreading the rumor that many Jews were to be baptized in that house.
Hundreds of Jews gathered and attacked the house. The police were rushed to
disperse the mob, and it was only the presence of the police which saved the
Protestant Minister from being lynched.
July 1961 a Christian Fundamentalist missionary group in Jerusalem was
forced to cancel it services when attacked by stone-throwing Jewish
religious fanatics. They chanted "Eichmann! Eichmann!" and began tossing
rocks.
10 January 1963 the Finnish Christian Mission School in Jerusalem is
attacked by seventy Jews, mostly Yeshiva students. They smashed windows and
beat Mr. Risto Santala, the school pastor. Further along the street the
plate glass windows of the Zion Mission shop run by Reverend William Hall
were smashed. All of this was the result of an editorial in the Jewish
newspaper Yediot Aharonot of 23 Dec. 1962 which accused the Christian
Mission of converting Jews to Christianity, and calling on Jews to
demonstrate outside the Finnish School.
