US says attack on West Bank Palestinian church was 'act of terror'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US says attack on West Bank Palestinian church was 'act of terror'

By Reuters
July 19, 2025 11:54 AM EDT Updated July 19, 2025

RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called on Saturday for the perpetrators of an attack on a Palestinian church in the occupied West Bank blamed on Israeli settlers to be prosecuted, calling it an "act of terror".

Huckabee said he had visited the Christian town of Taybeh, where clerics said Israeli settlers had started a fire near a cemetery and a 5th-century church on July 8.

"It is an act of terror, and it is a crime," Huckabee said in a statement, "Those who carry out acts of terror and violence in Taybeh – or anywhere – (should) be found and be prosecuted. Not just reprimanded, that’s not enough."

Israel's government has not commented on the incident, but has previously denounced such acts.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-says-attack-west-bank-palestinian-church-was-act-terror-2025-07-19/

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-says-attack-west-bank-155439678.html

[underpants]

1. A 5th century Church

That’s a millennia ago.

[questionseverything]

2. It's also terrorizing when murderous "settlers " kill Palestinians and steal their land

[lapucelle]

3. Will Huckabee advise Trump that Joe Biden's sanctions on West Bank settlers be reinstated? N/T

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Continue, Huckabooby.

It's also terror when the IDF shoots Palestinian people trying to get to the food relief trucks. or hen the *settlers" beat up and kill Palestinians so they can get their land, or when Israelis shoot up hospitals full of the elderly and infants because they "say" there are tunnels underneath them.
This is not enough.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Rhetoric until the U.S. ALSO calls the attacks on

residents and sheep on the West Bank, esp. the American citizen who died as a result of the attacks by the "settlors", to be terrorism.

(What may have worked in the Wild, Wild West doesn't apply to the West Bank.)