Father Atallah Hanna has condemned the Israeli decision to build a new settler neighborhood in al-Khalil describing it as “an attack on the city and its people.”
In press remarks Hanna the Archbishop of the Palestinian Orthodox Church in Occupied Jerusalem expressed his solidarity with al-Khalil residents following the Israeli decision to demolish the wholesale market in the Old City and build housing units for settlers in its place.
He warned that such step would eliminate all hopes of reopening al-Shuhada Street (the wholesale market) which has been closed since the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre.
