Hamas condemns Israeli attack on Christian monastery

Hamas condemned as a “crime” the Israeli settlers’ attack on Islamic and Christian holy shrines in occupied Jerusalem.
 
Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that the settlers’ attack on the Roman Orthodox monastery in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday was in violation of heavenly religions.
 
It strongly condemned the settlers’ spraying of anti-Christian graffiti on walls of the monastery, charging that the act was the latest in a series of violation of Islamic and Christian shrines in the holy city.
 
The Israeli occupation authority’s policy of restricting freedom of worship, which is guaranteed both by heavenly and earthly laws, would not succeed in wiping out the Palestinian identity of the city and its Islamic and Christian landmarks, Hamas said.
 
The movement held the IOA fully responsible for those attacks, and called on the human rights organizations and free people of the world to expose this criminal policy and to pressure the IOA to stop violation of places of worship and Islamic and Christian holy shrines in occupied Jerusalem.