OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), Israeli settlers targeted the Church of the Visitation in the depopulated village of Ein Karem west of occupied Jerusalem on Thursday.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that a group of settlers stormed the village and wrote racist hostile slogans on the walls of the church and on vehicles parked nearby.
Circulating images showed slogans written on the church walls and on vehicles including the phrases “revenge” and the “Jewish savior” and “revenge … David King of Israel”.
Ein Karem is considered one of the suburbs of occupied Jerusalem and its residents were displaced during the Nakba of 1948.
The attack comes within the context of repeated violations carried out by Israeli settlers and occupation forces against religious and holy sites in Jerusalem including raids on churches and mosques, desecration of religious shrines, and attempts to impose a settlement reality that threatens the city’s historical and religious identity.
