Blocking cardinal - In 2025, Israeli police stopped Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass.
Israelis attacking the headquarters of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem, before Israeli police assault, and detain an Armenian individual who was attempting to protect the facility.
Bentzi Gopstein - Bentzi Gopstein, the leader of Lehava, which receives money from the Israeli government, called for churches to be burned down: "Did the Rambam rule to destroy idol worship or not? Idol worship must be destroyed. And that's what the Jews are doing, burning down churches. They burned down the church where Jesus fed 5,000 and graffitid false gods to be eliminated. The definition of idol worship is the worship of images that are not God.''
Vandalism
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)
✞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)
Israelis vandalizing Christian graves in Jerusalem.
Airstrike Damage
Byzantine Church of Jabalia - Built 444. (Destroyed by air strike)
St. Hilarion Monastery - Built in the 4th century. (Damaged)
Holy Family Church - Built in 1938; (Damaged) 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.
Church of St. Porphyrius - Oldest active church in Gaza, built in 1160; (destroyed) 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.
Attacks on Christians
Settlers denying a Christian family access into a bomb shelter.
Yona Schreiber - Settler, Yona Schreiber, knocking over a nun in occupied Jerusalem.
Car attack - On January 28, two Israelis tried to obstruct traffic on the Armenian Patriarchate street, then hit the car of the car of Armenian returning home from work.
Jews attacking residents of the Armenian Quarter, one throwing a chair into a crowd.
Attack in which an Armenian man gets pepper-sprayed while a Jew tries to abduct his son.
Christian missionary woman continuously getting assaulted and spit at while trying to preach in Israel.
Footage of Orthodox Jews spitting on Christian pilgrims: 𓃠
Jew spits at and later assaults German abbot in Jerusalem before telling him to delete footage of it.
The same abbot was told to cover his cross by an Israeli guard during a Jerusalem tour.
Jews harassing passing Christian tourists.
By: Otto Heckel



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