Osama Al-Sharif
Two controversial and almost certainly illegal measures targeting
churches in occupied East Jerusalem have been suspended by the Israeli
government following a historic three-day closure last month of
Christianity’s holiest site; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In a rare
show of unity the heads of the three churches running the site;
Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian, agreed to shutter the
centuries-old gates of the church in the heart of the Old City in
protest of the two Israeli moves.
