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Suspected Jewish radicals deface Jerusalem monastery
Feb 7, 2012, 13:43 GMT
Jerusalem - Suspected Jewish radicals defaced the walls of a Jerusalem monastery with graffiti and sprayed anti-Islam slogans on walls in a West Bank village, police and local residents said on Tuesday.
Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said the Hebrew graffiti at the Monastery of the Cross, which lies in a valley near the Israeli parliament, included 'Death to Christians' and 'price tag,' a slogan used by militant settlers opposed to government plans to remove unauthorized settlement posts they set up in the West Bank.
Police opened an investigation into the rare attack on a Christian holy site.
Palestinians in the West Bank village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, north of the administrative city of Ramallah, said a group of armed settlers entered the village before dawn and scrawled anti-Islam graffiti on walls.
They said residents chased the settlers, two men and two women, out of the village. The settlers pulled guns at one point, but they left without incident.
Militant settlers have been blamed for vandalizing Palestinian property and mosques in the West Bank.
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