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Video: Jews, Christians, and Muslims gathered to celebrate Rosh Hashanah at Beit Jala church. Oct 2, 2024.

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Ihab Hassan
@IhabHassane
Oct 1, 2024

Remember the Qaisiya family, the Christian family from Bethlehem, whose land in the Makhrour area was stolen by settlers, forcibly driving them off their own land.

In an act of solidarity and resistance, activists and the Christian family built a church from wooden panels on their land. Today, Israeli forces arrived and demolished that church.
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Ihab Hassan
@IhabHassane
1:43 PM · Oct 2, 2024

Jews, Christians, and Muslims gathered at the newly built wooden-panel church in Al-Makhrour, Bethlehem, ringing the bell and sounding the shofar in solidarity with the Qaisyeh family, the Christian family whose land is being stolen by Israeli settlers.

This church stood as a powerful symbol of unity and peace. But the Israeli army came, destroyed it, and bulldozed it to the ground
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IOF to demolish Beit Jala church
Tuesday 1-October-2024

BETHLEHEM, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) notified, on Monday evening, a church built on lands, owned by the Qaisiya family in the Makhrour area of ​​Beit Jala, west of the city of Bethlehem, with demolition.

Local sources said that the IOF ordered the demolition of the church, which was built of wooden panels and established by activists of the popular resistance, in cooperation with the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission and the Makhrour landowners Committee, on a Palestinian-owned land threatened with confiscation.

The establishment of the church was aimed at reminding the world of the suffering of the Palestinian people in light of the growing Israeli confiscation and demolition policy.

Last July, a group of settlers seized the land of citizen Ramzi Qaisiya in the Makhrour area, and forced him and his family members to leave it at gunpoint, despite obtaining papers proving their ownership of the land.