Israeli Police Arrest a Man Suspected of Attacking a Nun Near Jerusalem’s Old City
Police say the 36-year-old suspect remains in custody as authorities investigate a possible racially motivated attack on a researcher who suffered bruises.
- Israeli police arrested a 36-year-old man on Wednesday for assaulting a French nun near King David's Tomb in Jerusalem on Tuesday, with authorities investigating potential racist motives.
- The victim, a researcher at the French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, was walking in the Bab al Nabi Dawud area when she was thrown onto a rock and kicked repeatedly, according to Father Olivier Poquillon.
- Father Poquillon denounced the "sectarian violence," while the Faculty of Humanities at Jerusalem's Hebrew University condemned the attack as part of a "troubling pattern of rising hostility toward the Christian community."
- Recent tensions escalated when police blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday, and Israeli soldiers destroyed a Jesus statue in southern Lebanon earlier this month.
- Data from the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue and the Religious Freedom Data Center recorded 155 to 181 incidents of assault and vandalism targeting Christians in Jerusalem during 2025, underscoring escalating hostility.
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Jewish man attacks Catholic nun in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — A French nun was assaulted near Jerusalem’s Old City, shoved onto a rock and repeatedly kicked near a site revered by Christians and Jews, amid a rise in attacks targeting Christians in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Israeli police said they arrested a 36-year-old man suspected of the assault but declined to disclose his nationality. Eyewitnesses said the assailant was a Jewish man. Police released video of the incident show…
Jerusalem Latin patriarchate cleric calls Israeli attack on nun...
The vicar general of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem on Friday called an Israeli extremist's assault on a French nun "extremely serious and despicable," Anadolu reports. On Wednesday, a 36-year-old Israeli man was arrested after assaulting a nun in East Jerusalem, according to Israeli police, in an attack they called "racially motivated." Bishop William Shomali told Anadolu he had watched video footage of the incident, describing it as "pain…
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