Moshe Dayan - In 1968, Israel's Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, was robbing a burial cave at Azur near Tel Aviv when a landslide badly injured him, putting him in the hospital for 3 weeks.
Raz Kletter, formerly of the Israeli Antiquities Authority: ''He became involved with amateur and professional robbers, dealers, and smugglers. I have documented 35 sites where evidence of robbing and illegal digging by Dayan exists. No doubt this is only the tip of the iceberg, but it testifies to the scale and temper of his activities.''
Airstrike Damage
☪︎Othman bin Qashqar Mosque; built 1220 AD (Damaged in an airstrike)
☪︎Sayad al-Hashim Mosque; built 1850 (Damaged in airstrike)
☪︎Library of Great Omari Mosque; built 1277 CE (Destroyed in an airstrike)
☪︎Al-Bukhari Mosque (Destroyed)
✞Byzantine Church of Jabalia; built 444 (Destroyed by air strike)
✞St Hilarion Monastery; built in the 4th century (Damaged)
✞The Church of St Porphyrius; built 1160 (Destroyed, killing 17 Palestinian Christians) Palestinian officials stated that at least 500 Muslims and Christians had been sheltering in the church from IDF bombardments. A member of the community indicated that about 100 people had been sheltering in the two-story building hit by the strike, with about 400 spread across the entire complex.
✞Holy Family Church; built 1938; (Damaged in airstrike) the Church's parishioners, Samar Anton and her mother, Nahida were shot dead in the church by an Israeli sniper, while one tried to carry the other to safety. Seven others taking refuge in the church were wounded.
Mathaf al-Funduq Museum; built 1685 (Destroyed by shelling)
Rashad El Shawa Cultural Center; built 1985 (Destroyed)
Qasr al-Basha; built Mid-13th Century (Damaged by Israeli airstrike)
Anthedon Harbour; built 2000BC (Destroyed by shelling)
Hammam al-Sammara pre-Islam; built (Destroyed)
Tell el-Ajjul fortified city; built 1000AD (Damaged)
The Rafah Museum; held ancient coins, copper plates and jewelry (Destroyed in airstrike)
Al Qarara Museum; held about 3,000 Canaanite artifacts (Destroyed in airstrike)
Civilian Vandalism
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers have been documented and filmed attacking Palestinians on their lands, stealing their olives and setting fire to their groves.
Taybeh - Settlers burned down Taybeh, the last entirely Christian Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, which, beforehand, had faced a wave of systematic attacks, arson, and encroaching blockades by Israeli settlers.
☪︎✞Price Tag attacks - In what are known as price tag attacks, Israeli settlers set fire to mosques and churches, spray painting the slogan ''price tag,'' implying it to be the price of Palestinians defensing themselves from Israelis. This has also happened to cars and a Palestinian cherry orchard. (𓃠,𓃠)
☪︎Al-Aqsa Mosque fire - In 1969, an Australian Jewish man, Denis Michael Rohan, set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, before being deported back to Australia on the grounds of being mentally unstable.
✞Tabgha Church fire - In 2015, Yinon Reuveni was convicted for setting fire to a church in Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus is said to have performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes. The words: "Idols will be cast out or destroyed" were spray painted on its walls.
✞Gethsemane Church Attempted Arson - In 2020, an Israeli settler attempted to burn down Gethsemane Church in occupied East Jerusalem, where Jesus is believed to have been betrayed by Judas.
✞Vandalization of Prison of Christ Church - In 2023, an Israeli settler vandalized the Prison of Christ Church in Jerusalem, before trying to burn it. The man in question was deemed by the police to be mentally unstable. (𓃠)
✞Vandalization of the Armenian Patriarchate - In 2023, Israeli fanatics attacked the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem, removing the Armenian flag, while spraying “Death to the Arabs and Gentiles,” “Death to Christians,” and “Death to the Armenians” on its walls.
Slaughtered by: Otto Heckel
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