Huckabe visits the Christian Church in the West Bank, which was the goal of the intentional attack star-news.press/wp

On Saturday, the American ambassador to Israel visited Mike Hakapi a Christian village in the West Bank occupied by Israel and urged accountability for an attack on an ancient church, which the residents threw on Israeli settlers.

In early July, the village of Taybeh was attacked in the ruins of the Church of St. George in the Byzantine era, which dates back to the fifth century.

Residents blamed the settlers in the fire, which comes with the high violence in the West Bank, and last week witnessed a Palestinian American man. Killed near Ramallah.

Israel has not yet responded to CBS News requests for information about the accident.

Hakapi, an evangelical Christian lawyer and based on Israel, said that his journey to Tiba aims to “express solidarity with people who just want to live their lives in peace, be able to go to their land, and be able to go to the place of their worship.”

“It does not matter whether it is a mosque, a church or a church,” he told reporters.

“It is unacceptable to commit a act of action by desecrating a place that is supposed to be a place for worship.”

“We will definitely assert that those who carry out terrorism and violence in Taybeh or wherever they can be found, and not only reprimand. This is not enough,” he said.

“People need to pay a price to do something that destroys not only belongs to others, but it is the one who belongs to God.”

In villages and societies around Tayeb, the Palestinian authorities stated that the settlers had killed three people and destroyed or destroyed multiple water sources in the past two weeks alone.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and violence has risen in the region since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which has sparked Hamas war.

Hakapi, who for years was an explicit supporter of the Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territories, on Tuesday He called for an aggressive investigation The consequences after the settlers to death overcame Palestinian America in the West Bank.

It was a sign of rare general pressure against the Israeli ally by the Trump administration.