Barring Jerusalem Patriarch from Church of the Holy Sepulchre marks Israel’s latest move to control Christian and Muslim sites
“Israel is seeking to exploit the war … to impose new realities and facts on Jerusalem,” says Greek Orthodox Archbishop Attalah Hanna. “[This] is an attack on Jerusalem, its identity, its history, its heritage as Christian and Islamic holy sites.”
It’s deeply concerning to see this kind of pressure being applied to religious sites. The implications for stability in Jerusalem are significant, and I appreciate The Palestinian Pulse for highlighting this critical situation.