The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Hukabi visited a Christian village in Israeli -occupied West Bank on Saturday and urged for accountability for an attack on an ancient church, which the residents have convicted Israeli settlers.
In early July, Tayebih village was killed by an attack in the ruins of the Byzantine-Eugration Church of St. George, which is back in the fifth century.
Residents blamed the settlers for fire, who come in the form of violence in the West Bank and saw an American-Filistin man last week Killed to Ramallah,
Israel has not yet responded to the requests of CBS News for information about the incident.
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Hukabi, an agel Christian and staunch advocate for Israel, said that his visit to Tayebih “aims to express solidarity with those who just want to live their lives in peace, to be able to go to their own land, to be able to go to their place of worship.”
“It doesn’t matter whether it is a mosque, a church, a synagogue,” he told reporters.
“It is unacceptable to do a work of purity to separate a place that is considered a place of worship.”
He said, “We will surely insist that people who fulfill the acts of terror and violence anywhere are prosecuted, not just rebuke.”
“People need to pay a price to do something that is destroyed which is not only related to other people, but the one who belongs to God.”
In the villages and communities around Tayebah, Palestinian officials reported that the settlers had killed three people and damaged or destroyed several water sources in the last two weeks.
Israel has captured the West Bank since 1967 and the violence has increased in the region since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, which triggered the Israeli-Hamas war.
Hakabi, which has been for years Demand an aggressive investigation And results after killing a Palestinian-American at West Bank.
This was a sign of rare public pressure against American ally Israel by Trump’s administration.
