Jewish vandals smash tombstones in Jerusalem Christian cemetery
Four men were throwing concrete blocks at 15 tombstones, broke crosses off headstones when apprehended by nearby policemen.
By REUTERSmt olives cemetery 311(photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
Four suspected Jewish nationalists were arrested for smashing headstones in a Christian cemetery near Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday.The four men, two of whom were settlers from the West Bank, were throwing concrete blocks at about 15 tombstones when they were caught by policemen who were nearby, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.Several of the headstones, some of which dated back to the early 1900s, had had stone crosses broken off."Two of the men are known Hilltop Youth activists," Rosenfeld said, referring to a fringe group of Jewish settlers suspected by Israeli authorities of vandalizing several mosques and monasteries in the past few years."Their motive was nationalistic," Rosenfeld said. The suspects were aged between 17 and 26.
