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| A monk stands next to graffiti sprayed on a wall at the entrance to the Latrun Monastery near Jerusalem September 4, 2012. REUTERS/Baz Ratner |
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vandals set fire to the doors of a Christian monastery in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
on Tuesday and daubed pro-settler graffiti on its walls in a possible
retaliation for the eviction of families from an unauthorized outpost.
The name of the unauthorized Migron outpost, cleared of Israeli settlers
following a court order on Sunday, was scrawled on the well-known 19th
century Latrun Monastery, alongside the words "Jesus is a monkey" in
Hebrew, said police.
Israeli security officials had said they were worried Sunday's eviction of 50 families from Migron, in another part of the West Bank near Ramallah, might provoke more attacks from a vigilante settler group known as "Price Tag".
The group has
targeted mosques and, less commonly, Christian churches, seeing any
non-Jewish religious sites as an intrusion on the land.
Palestinian
Christian academic Bernard Sabella told Reuters the attack, and others
like it, had been carried out by "groups of extremist Jews who do not
want Muslims or Christians to remain in this country".
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat issued a statement accusing the Israeli government of not doing enough to prosecute the attackers...READ MORE
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