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Sudetenland Tales
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The same has happened in Gaza, where its roughly 1,000 Christians are mostly sheltering in the war battered Strip’s last three churches, one of which was attacked by Israeli forces last week, killing three civilians.
Father Bashar Fawadleh fears the attacks will drive Christian families from his parish.
Walking around the scorched earth that now encircles the Church of St. George, Father Bashar warned; “This is just the beginning. They want to put fear in our hearts to live here. These attacks will bleed the town of people as they leave scared. We have lost 100 families already in the past two years.”
Residents watched in horror as the blaze spread closer to the Church of St. George, which dates back to the fifth century.
The flames were doused, but not for long. That evening, government funded, Israeli “settlers” returned to the town of Taybeh with assault rifles. The same happened the next day and three days after that.