Father Atallah Hanna has strongly denounced the transfer of ownership of Islamic and Christian properties and buildings in Occupied Jerusalem to Jewish groups through real estate transactions or straw buyers calling such practice as “a disaster and treason in every sense of the word.”
During his meeting with a local delegation from the holy city Father Hanna Archbishop of the Palestinian Orthodox Church in Occupied Jerusalem warned that the repercussions of such real estate transactions would be “disastrous for the identity and nature of Jerusalem.”
The churchman called for establishing a national commission in Jerusalem to follow up this serious and sensitive issue. “If we as Christian and Muslim Jerusalemites did not do our duty towards the City of Jerusalem no one else will do it on our behalf.”
