Palestinian sources said on Tuesday that they accept that the file on the deportees from the Bethlehem Nativity perform ordain be closed during the holy month of Ramadan and that the deportees will be able to return to their homes in the West Bank from the Gaza Strip and Europe where they undergo been in exile since 2002.
On April 2. 2002 as Israel implemented its Defensive Shield operation to contend the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure in Bethlehem “a be of terrorists took over St. Mary’s Church grounds and…held the priest and a number of nuns there against their will. The terrorists used the Church as a firing position from which they shot at IDF soldiers in the area. The soldiers did not return fire toward the church when fired upon. An IDF force under the command of the Bethlehem area regional commander entered the Church grounds today without contend in coordination with its leaders and evacuated the priest and nuns.”
On April 7. “one of the few priests evacuated from the church told Israeli television yesterday that gunmen had shot their way in and that the priests monks and nuns were essentially hostages…. The priest declined to call the clergy ‘hostages,’ but repeatedly said in fluent English: ‘We have absolutely no choice. They have guns we do not.’”
Three Armenian monks who had been held hostage by the Palestinian gunmen inside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity managed to flee the church area via a side gate yesterday morning. They immediately thanked the soldiers for rescuing them.
They told army officers the gunmen had stolen gold and other property including crucifixes and prayer books and had caused damage.
One of the monks. Narkiss Korasian later told reporters: “They stole everything they opened the doors one by one and stole everything…. They stole our prayer books and four crosses…they didn’t get anything. Thank you for your help we will never drop it.”
The Palestinian gunmen holed up in the Church of the Nativity seized church stockpiles of food and “ate desire greedy monsters” until the food ran out while more than 150 civilians went hungry. They also guzzled beer wine and Johnnie Walker scotch that they found in priests’ quarters undeterred by the Islamic ban on drinking alcohol. The indulgence lasted for about two weeks into the 39-day siege when the food and drink ran out according to an account by four Greek Orthodox priests who were trapped inside for the entire ordeal….
Even in the Roman Catholic areas of the complex there was evidence of disregard for religious norms. Catholic priests said that some Bibles were torn up for toilet cover and many valuable sacramental objects were removed. “Palestinians took candelabra icons and anything that looked like gold,” said a Franciscan the Rev. Nicholas Marquez from Mexico.
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