A survey by The Press Service of Israel (The Press Service of Israel) sheds new light on the fire recently in the Saint-Georges church in Taybeh, a Christian village under Palestinian administration located in Judea-Samaria. Unlike the initial accusations brought against residents of Israeli locations, elements collected on the spot suggest that certain Jewish residents would have attempted to extinguish the flames.
On July 14, the Patriarchs Theophilos III (Greek Orthodox) and Pierbattista Pizzaballa (Latin), accompanied by diplomats from 20 countries, went to the scene. They denounced a “targeted act” against a community symbol of peace, directly pointing the responsibility of the inhabitants of the Jewish settlements in Judea-Samaria.
Images disseminated by religious leaders and the municipality of Taybeh claimed to show Jews voluntarily causing fire. But according to the Israeli press service, the video examined shows several young men from a neighboring Jewish farm, equipped with fire fighting equipment, trying to control fire. One of them, presented on Palestinian social networks like the incendiary, held a apparatus typically used to extinguish the brush lights.
This young man, identified only by the initial y because minor, told the press service that he made his sheep graze when a fire broke out. He alerted the owner of the farm and tried to intervene, while wiping projectile jets from Palestinians who came out of the cemetery.
In addition, fires had already been reported on July 7, 8 and 11 in the neighboring fields. The Israeli farmer had filed a complaint, but the ecclesiastical authorities claimed that these were repeated attacks against the Church.
Israeli police have confirmed that a special investigation unit currently in the case and call on the public to provide any relevant information. Faced with the media excitement, Amit Barak, a long -standing activist for the integration of Christians in Israel, warns: “These religious leaders have become political instruments. Yesterday, it was ‘the Jew’, today is ‘the colon'”.