Catholic Church Demands Israel Act After Vandals Attack Jerusalem Offices
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 16:28 EDT
The Roman Catholic church demanded Israeli action Wednesday after suspected Jewish extremists daubed hate graffiti on Vatican-owned offices in annexed Arab east Jerusalem just two weeks before a papal visit.
Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said the government planned to use detention without trial against the suspected extremists as it comes under mounting pressure over its failure to secure a single prosecution in an intensifying wave of hate crime.
Hebrew-language graffiti reading Death to Arabs and Christians and those who hate Israel was daubed over offices of the Assembly of Bishops at the Notre Dame centre, a Vatican-owned complex opposite the walls of Jerusalems Old City, on Monday, the Roman Catholic church said.
The Notre Dame centre is the property of the Holy See and this provocation comes two weeks before Pope Franciss visit to the Holy Land and Jerusalem, the Latin patriarchate said on its website.
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