US condemns settler ‘act of terror’ on historic Palestinian church – Middle East Monitor

The US has issued a rare condemnation after Israeli settlers were accused of committing an “act of terror” by setting fire near a historic Palestinian church in Taybeh, in the illegally occupied West Bank.

The incident took place on 8 July in Taybeh, a Christian-majority town northeast of Ramallah, where Israeli settlers set fire to land adjacent to a 5th-century Byzantine church and the town’s cemetery. Taybeh, one of the last remaining all-Christian…