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Ramallah condemns spitting incident by Jewish extremists at Christian monk
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
Palestinians walk past closed shops in the Old City of Jerusalem, Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns the two Jewish Israelis who spat at a Christian clergyman and insulted him in the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday.
In a statement, Ramallah blames the incident on “incitement” by far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich and as an expression of a “racist colonial culture” that “denies the existence of the other.”
The statement further claims that “settler militias” feel emboldened by a “sense of political and legal impunity” that encourages them to persist in “sowing hatred” and “provoking Palestinian citizens and members of other religions.”
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