The Palestinian foreign ministry
calls on the Vatican and on the international community to
protect Christian and Muslim sites in the Holy Land, the
Palestinian embassy said in a statement Wednesday.
The ministry condemned two attacks last month by Jewish
settlers who torched a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem and
vandalized and set fire to a mosque in the village of Al
Jaba'ah, near Bethlehem.
"The ministry condemns these continued aggressions, which
take place before the eyes of the Israeli government in the
presence of its occupation forces, which guarantee the
protection of extremist settlers," the statement said.
"We call on the Holy See, the international community, the
United Nations and the Security Council...to take responsibility
and to put an end to settler attacks against our people,
especially in east Jerusalem".
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