2 arrested on suspicion of spitting at church in Jerusalem’s Old City

Jerusalem police say two men were arrested yesterday on suspicion of spitting at a church in the Old City.

Police say the two men in their 20s from the center of the country were observed walking down a street in the Old City of Jerusalem before they spat at a church and then fled the scene.

Recent years have seen increasing numbers of spitting attacks on Christians in the capital carried out by religiously observant Jews.

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