Jewish attack targeting Beshara church in al-Nasera
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/4/2006

Sources in al-Beshara church in the Palestinian city of al-Nasera north of Israel said that three Jewish extremist entered the church and threw fire crackers inside it and this resulted in material losses and fears among the attendants.

The Israeli radio quoted security sources that one man and two women were hiding these fire crackers and small gas explosives inside children carriage. Sources of the church confirmed that the three persons were arrested and handed over to the Israeli police while hundreds of the Arabs of 1948 gathered around the church to protect it.

Hundreds of the Israeli police members gathered inside the church and surrounded it to confront the Arab protests and the police fired noise bombs in order to disperse the demonstrators and this resulted in wounding at least two persons according to police sources.

News reports said that the Israeli security detained the three for while inside one of the church's rooms to protect them from the angry people as some of them threatened to kill the man who threw the fire crackers. The Israeli sources said that negotiations were made with the protesters via church officials in order to convince them by the removal of the police and the three detained persons, amid news that the Jewish man was injured at the hands of the angry Palestinians.

Security reinforcement were recalled while news were rumored on an attack which targeted one ambulance believed to have had transported the Jewish man outside the Church.

Worthy mentioning that al-Beshara church in al-Nasera where Christ grew up is one of the most important holy shrine for Christians and also for Muslims. The church was built in the site where it was presumed that Virgin Mary saw the messenger of God who told her about the coming of Jesus Christ.

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