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Imagine your loved one has died. Cement shipped from Egypt is too expensive. As a Christian family, you are denied the most basic and dignified burial and funeral procession or ceremony. In the Muslim world that surrounds you in the West Bank, you must contend with digging the grave of your own family member, covering that family member with sand and small stones, and hope no one disturbs the unmarked grave. It is the cruel plight of Christians in this part of the world.
Hundreds of cemetaries and cememtary plots have sustained considerable damage from intentional Israeli bulldozing and shelling of the Christian graveyards. It is a typical day when bodies, tiny and eldery, are carried on sheets of aluminum, planks of scrap wood, blown off doors...to the overcrowded graveyard in Beit Lahia. Gaza simply doesn't have any more room for burials, so dead Christians are being booted out. Because of the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza strip, thousands of Palestinians, as well as Christians, can't find an earthly resting place.
More recently, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, dug up Christian graves in the Gaza Strip because they said the Christian bodies defiled the land, a human rights group said. The Christians in the Palestinian Authority areas are facing persecutions. Their homes, their churches they get attacked almost every day.
In case you have been in the dark about the events unfolding there, Hamas is accused of torturing the members of Fatah in Gaza. The second more recent crime against humanity the Hamas has been positively linked to is digging up the graves of Christians there, throwing them and burning them and saying 'you cannot bury your dead bodies here because its our land, it's a holy land. Christians are being accused of polluting the Holy Land because they are not Muslims or what is considered by the majority there as the chosen people.
Now, Hamas has been forcing Christians to cooperate with them or their children or their wives will get raped or will get persecuted. The tiny Christian community had hoped for some protection from Hamas when it came to power.
Hamas was going to the graveyards of the Christians, digging up the dead body of the Christians, throwing them and burning them and saying 'you cannot bury your dead bodies here because its our land, it's a holy land.
Christian families are being forced to cooperate with Hamas or their children or their wives will get raped or will get persecuted.
The Christians in the Palestinian Authority areas [are] facing persecutions. Their homes, their churches they get attacked almost every day
This is disgusting, how come no major media outlet has covered this? the only reason I found out about it is because JStone posted something about this in a different thread.
This is disgusting, how come no major media outlet has covered this? the only reason I found out about it is because JStone posted something about this in a different thread.
You won't find any recent media coverage, it's an old story. The Times of London reported on it two years ago.
This is disgusting, how come no major media outlet has covered this? the only reason I found out about it is because JStone posted something about this in a different thread.
You won't find any recent media coverage, it's an old story. The Times of London reported on it two years ago.
This was not covered in the US, this is the first time I heard about it. I keep being told Palestinians want a country with equal rights for everyone, but yet they don't want their Christians being buried there? thats not a good sign to me.
This is disgusting, how come no major media outlet has covered this? the only reason I found out about it is because JStone posted something about this in a different thread.
You won't find any recent media coverage, it's an old story. The Times of London reported on it two years ago.
This was not covered in the US, this is the first time I heard about it. I keep being told Palestinians want a country with equal rights for everyone, but yet they don't want their Christians being buried there? thats not a good sign to me.
You won't find any recent media coverage, it's an old story. The Times of London reported on it two years ago.
This was not covered in the US, this is the first time I heard about it. I keep being told Palestinians want a country with equal rights for everyone, but yet they don't want their Christians being buried there? thats not a good sign to me.
Equal rights for everyone...unless you happen to be an infidel.
You won't find any recent media coverage, it's an old story. The Times of London reported on it two years ago.
This was not covered in the US, this is the first time I heard about it. I keep being told Palestinians want a country with equal rights for everyone, but yet they don't want their Christians being buried there? thats not a good sign to me.
Equal rights for everyone...unless you happen to be an infidel.
Hamas was going to the graveyards of the Christians, digging up the dead body of the Christians, throwing them and burning them and saying 'you cannot bury your dead bodies here because its our land, it's a holy land.
Christian families are being forced to cooperate with Hamas or their children or their wives will get raped or will get persecuted.
The Christians in the Palestinian Authority areas [are] facing persecutions. Their homes, their churches they get attacked almost every day
This was not covered in the US, this is the first time I heard about it. I keep being told Palestinians want a country with equal rights for everyone, but yet they don't want their Christians being buried there? thats not a good sign to me.
Equal rights for everyone...unless you happen to be an infidel.
Yeah no kidding, pretty soon Christians in the Middle East will be the new big foot, always talked about but rarely seen anymore.
