In an attack that occurred Tuesday, illegal Israeli colonizers stormed the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, attacking the Armenian Monastery and desecrating Christian holy symbols.
Footage released Wednesday shows colonizers spitting on the monastery, crosses, and sacred symbols, underscoring the escalating violations against Christian and Islamic places of worship in the city.
Occupied Jerusalem faces a dangerous rise in attacks targeting Christian properties, with the occupation authorities complicit in enabling these crimes.
Jerusalemite Journalist Kegham Balian, from the Armenian Quarter, pointed out that although the occupation police station is located just a minute away from the monastery, officers arrived 25 minutes after the attack—long after the assailants had fled.
Balian shared a photo documenting the incident on the “X” platform, amplifying calls for urgent international intervention to protect the Christian presence in occupied Jerusalem and halt the ongoing violations by illegal colonizers and occupation forces.
On X account, the Armenian News said: “when confronted by our local correspondent Kegham Balian @kbalian90), a group of bystanders gathered, and tensions quickly escalated. The situation intensified when a driver arriving at the scene also spat toward the Convent in an act of provocation.”
It added, “The Armenian civils responsible for protecting the Armenian Quarter were immediately called and arrived at the location without delay. The [Israeli] police, whose station is less than a minute away from the Convent, were also contacted promptly. However, they arrived 25 minutes later, after the perpetrators had already left the scene.
BREAKING: Israelis Spit on the Armenian Convent During Jewish Holiday.
At midnight on June 2, 2025, during the final hours of Shavuot—a holiday commemorating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, specifically the Ten Commandments—a young Israeli was seen spitting at the… pic.twitter.com/mDlJelD82c
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It also quoted Yiscra Harani, an Israeli activist, scholar, and Director of The Hotline for the Documentation of Assaults Against Christians, stated, “At the conclusion of the Jewish festival of Shavuot, a shameful display of ‘Jewish supremacy’ took place: not only the degrading act of spitting at a church and at a person, but also a haughty crowd surrounding an Armenian man who simply asked, ‘Why are you doing this?’”
In related news, ten Palestinians were injured on Wednesday evening during a large-scale attack by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Tuesday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded a Bedouin community near Jericho, uprooted trees near Ramallah, and attacked Palestinian cars near Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
On Monday at dawn, an illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizer, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, assaulted Palestinian civilians and nonviolent activists in Abu Hammam hamlet, south of Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
On Saturday, Illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted a Palestinian woman near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and assaulted others near Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
On Friday, a pregnant Palestinian woman sustained bruises and lost consciousness after being assaulted by illegal paramilitary colonizers in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern region.
Late Friday night, paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted two Palestinian bus drivers in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
In related news, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers continued the construction of a new colonialist outpost on stolen Palestinian lands in the Al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have escalated their invasions and violations across the occupied West Bank, with dozens of colonizers also attacking Palestinian homes, uprooting lands, burning cars and torching farmlands, while Israeli occupation soldiers uprooted trees.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
