Israeli extremists are terrorising Palestinian Christians and their holy sites

Israeli extremists are terrorising Palestinian Christians and their holy sites Submitted by Janan Abdu on Sun, 06/28/2026 - 11:27 With Religious Zionism dominating key institutions of the Israeli state, police and courts fail to hold its adherents accountable for attacks on Christian communities A woman in Beirut views a social media post showing an Israeli soldier striking a statue of Christ in the southern Lebanese village of Debel on 20 April 2026 (Anwar Amro/AFP) Off The frequency and intensity of hate crimes and terrorist acts against Palestinian Christians - including pilgrims, worshippers, clergy, nuns, Christian property, holy sites and religious symbols - carried out by Israeli extremists are steadily increasing. These attacks are not the isolated or spontaneous incidents that Israel portrays them as to evade responsibility as a government and a state. They are premeditated crimes, committed by individuals and groups - including members of the police and military - who draw their ideological framework from extremist Religious Zionist doctrine, particularly the Hardal (Haredi Leumi, or nationalist Haredi) movement, an ultra-Orthodox nationalist current whose leading figures form part of the current governing coalition headed by Bezalel Smotrich.