100s protest Israeli hate attacks against Muslims, Christians

Hundreds of people have staged a demonstration near the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in al-Quds (Jerusalem) to condemn the hate attacks against local Muslims and Christians in the occupied territories.

Muslims, Christians and Jews held a joint protest on Sunday night to slam the spiraling wave of the so-called “price tag” attacks carried out by radical Israelis. The protesters called on the Tel Aviv regime to take actions against such attacks.

Israeli vandals regularly attack Christian and Muslim properties as well as their holy sites in the West Bank and East al-Quds. The extremists say the “price tag” attacks are carried out against any Israeli policy “to reduce the presence of settlers and settlements on the occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).”

Israeli officials have rarely taken any action against “price tag” assailants.

Critics say the Israeli government has not taken enough measures to prevent the attacks.

Also on Sunday, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the occupied Palestinian territories, condemned the hate crime.

The United Nations says there have been 2,100 such attacks since 2006, when the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) started the counting, with the annual overalls up from 115 in 2006 to 399 last year.