Shocking footage has emerged showing a French nun being attacked – apparently by a religious Jewish man – in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem earlier this week.
It shows the woman in a grey habit being shoved from behind, causing her to hit her head on a stone block. Her attacker, who is wearing a Jewish kippah and tzitzit – ritual tassels – initially walks away but then returns to kick her as she lies on the ground.
The assault comes amid a recent rise in harassment of Christian clergy and pilgrims by Jewish extremists in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Israeli police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of racially motivated assault, but no charges have yet been brought.
Father Olivier Poquillon, director of the French Biblical and Archaeological School, where the nun is a researcher, wrote on X that she was the “victim of an unprovoked assault” in the late afternoon on Tuesday.
“We strongly condemn this act of sectarian violence and expect the authorities to act swiftly and decisively,” he added.
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