A letter to the Israeli management was despatched on Sunday by the leaders of the foremost Christian religions, as acknowledged in an announcement by the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Greece, denouncing the Israeli native authorities and particularly the so-called, because it states, “Municipality of Jerusalem” for its actions to ship warning letters by attorneys, to provoke authorized proceedings in varied courts in opposition to the church buildings for alleged tax money owed, contemplating that it is a “coordinated assault” in opposition to the Christian presence within the Holy Land by initiating tax proceedings (Arnona) in opposition to them.
Church leaders, together with Patriarch Theophilus III, Patriarch of Jerusalem and All Palestine, referred to as for the choice to be reversed and the traditionally validated Standing Quo that has been in place for a century to be maintained. Church leaders pressured the significance of preserving Jerusalem’s sacred character and defending the church buildings’ capacity to meet their ministries.
The assertion emphasised that Israel illegally occupied East Jerusalem, the Capital of the State of Palestine in 1967, and annexed it in 1980 in disregard of worldwide opinion and in flagrant violation of worldwide legal guidelines that prohibit the acquisition of land by drive.
The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Hellenic Republic states: “Even non secular establishments are topic to Israel’s Apartheid Insurance policies and Legal guidelines, pressured to pay the ‘Arnon’, Israeli municipal taxes, whereas Synagogues are exempted from paying these taxes.” And he added: “These measures are solely one in every of many measures imposed by the Israeli occupation on the Judaism of occupied East Jerusalem, with systematic apartheid insurance policies, by which the Israeli authorities goals to drive out all non-Jewish non secular affect in occupied Jerusalem as a way to strengthen the Israeli declare and occupation of the Capital of Palestine, this coverage consists of the numerous alteration or destruction of assorted monuments which have a sacred, historic or cultural character.”
Among the many Patriarchs and heads of Church buildings who signed the letter are the next:
– Patriarch Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate
– Patriarch Nurhan Manouyan, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Patriarchate
– Archbishop Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarchate
– Fr. Francesco Patton, ofm, Custos of the Holy Locations.
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