Palestinians in Gaza, Western Bank Marked Žirs Easter in the middle of Israeli attacks News about the conflict of Izreel-Palestine

Palestinian Christians in Gaza, occupied Western Bank and Jerusalem were marked by others Sombre Easter in punishing the conditions and war of Israel on Gaza.

In Gaza Strip, where there is no food or help from the Israeli army for almost 50 days, people noticed Easter on Sunday in the Greek Orthodox Church Saint Porphyrius in the city of Gaza in the middle of death and destruction.

Easter celebrations were limited to religious rituals such as families canceled other gatherings that fear More bombs would be rejected Israeli warriors, who killed dozens of people in a surrounded enclave on Sunday.

Israeli forces bombed the blend of St. Porphyrius In October 2023. year, only the days after the war began after the attack on HAMAS attacks on Israel. Israel said to aiming “terrorists”.

That attack killed at least 18 displaced Palestinians who sought refuge in the Church. The Israeli army has killed more than 51,000 Palestine from the beginning of the war.

During the short appearance before thousands of Catholic pilgrims gathered in Svetog Peter Square for Vatican’s Easter mass outdoors, Pope Francis Renovated his call for a truce in Gaza.

He also called on a Palestinian armed group of Hamas and other groups to release the remaining prisoners held in Gaza.

Severe restrictions in the occupied west coast

Israeli authorities prevented many Christians, including Palestinians, to access the Holy Easter sites in Occupied western bank.

The Israeli police clashed with Christian clogs, and even priests while trying to approach the Church of St. Sebulers in the Occupied East Jerusalem.

The Old Town Jerusalem He was in force that the Israeli authorities turned to the military, said Fathi Nimer, Palestinian counterpart policy in Tank Al-Shabak.

“Some would say that there are now more soldiers, security and police officers around the Holy Sebulčar,” said Al Jazeera from Ramallah in the west coast on Sunday.

“There are dozens of checkpoints in the city, and these restrictions did not only affect Palestinian Christians from the Western Bank, but also from Jerusalem itself and within the territory of 1948. Years.

Nimer said people were beaten, and Israeli officers and viewers focused insults and servants towards Christians.

Only about 6,000 Palestinians from the West Bank received permits for to attend Easter services This year, and even the representative of the Vatican in Palestine was denied entry into the church.

Nimer said that the tightening of the Israeli damping due to the holy place in recent years has led to a reduced number of adversaries of Palestinian descent.

“This is all part of the broader war on Palestinian culture and identity. Israel basically says that they have an exclusive claim of Jerusalem and the whole Palestine,” he said.

‘I don’t have permission to go as a pastor’

Mitri Raheb, Palestinian Pastor and theology and founder and president of the University of Al-Kali in Bethlehem, agreed that the current Israeli restrictions are among the most difficult.

“I am as a pastor no permit to go to the world, which is the most important week for Christians throughout the year because Jesus was crucified and increased in Jerusalem,” he said in Jerusalem.

“The Palestinian-Christian community that has been there for 2,000 years cannot go there to celebrate and mark that where everything happened.”

Raheb said the incentive against Palestinian Christians, especially members of the clergy, is also rising with a dozen incidents of the attackers of Israeli attackers this year.

“One of the first things you read about Jesus is that he was like a lamb to slaughter. But when you hear it today as Palestinian Christians, you think our whole people to slaughter are, given what happens in Gaza.”

Israeli settlers and politicians, supported by armed police and soldiers, are also more and more Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque Connection To perform Talmudian rituals and the challenge of your status quo.

Non-Muslims are not allowed to worship in the third place of Islam, located in eastern Jerusalem, as part of the status in the status agreement that the Israeli government claims that it remains dedicated.

Papa Tawadros II, the head of the Egypt Koppy Orthodox Church, strongly condemned Israel’s attack on Gaza.

“Palestinians are subject to the most terrible forms of injustice in their daily lives due to the destruction of their homeland,” he told state television during the Easter celebration.