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A6 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 16 april 2024
Horrified worshipers watch online and in person as a bishop is

stabbed at a church in Sydney

By MARK BAKER and injured more than a dozen
ROD MCGUIRK others.
Associated Press Holland suggested the
SYDNEY (AP) — Horrified weekend attack height-
worshipers watched on- ened the community’s re-
line and in person as a sponse to the church stab-
15-year-old boy stabbed bing.
a bishop and a priest dur- “Given that there has been
ing a church service in Syd- incidents in Sydney the last
ney on Monday evening few days with knives in-
before the congregation volved, obviously there’s
overpowered him, police concerns,” he said. “We’ve
said. asked for everyone to think
A crowd of hundreds seek- rationally at this stage. We
ing revenge gathered out- spoke to community lead-
side the Orthodox Assyrian ers and members of the
church, hurling bricks and community to speak to
bottles, injuring police offi- their local people, to try
cers and preventing police and keep people calm.”
from taking the teen out- The premier of New South
side, officials said. Wales, Chris Minns, de-
There were no life-threat- scribed the scenes as “dis-
ening injuries. Bishop Mar turbing” on social media
Mari Emmanuel and priest Security officers stand guard outside Orthodox Assyrian church in Sydney, Australia, Monday, and urged the community
Isaac Royel, the teen and April 15, 2024. to remain calm and “stick
at least two police officers Associated Press together.” Religious leaders
were hospitalized, Acting streams sermons online. severed, he said the hand and items at the church expressed shock and con-
Assistant Police Commis- A video on social media injuries were “severe.” itself. There were obviously dolences.
sioner Andrew Holland told shows a male dressed in More than 100 police rein- people who wanted to get Fairfield Mayor Frank Car-
journalists. black approaching the forcements arrived before access to the young per- bone, leader of the neigh-
The church in a message bishop at the altar and the teen was taken from son who caused the injuries boring municipal govern-
on social media said the stabbing him repeatedly in the church in the hourslong to the clergy people,” he ment, described the bishop
bishop and priest were in the head and upper body. incident. Several police ve- said. as a community leader.
stable condition and asked Members of the congre- hicles were damaged, Hol- Authorities did not imme- “This is a very emotional sit-
for people’s prayers. “It is gation scream and rush to land said. diately report a motive for uation. Obviously the com-
the bishop’s and father’s stop it. “A number of houses have the attack. munity is very upset,” Car-
wishes that you also pray Holland commended the been damaged. They’ve Australians were still in bone told Sky News.
for the perpetrator,” the congregation for subdu- broken into a number of shock after a lone assail- Christ the Good Shep-
statement said. ing the teen before calling houses to gain weapons ant stabbed six people to herd had been preparing
The Christ the Good Shep- police. When asked if the to throw at the police. death in a Sydney shop- for Palm Sunday later this
herd in suburban Wakeley teen’s fingers had been They’ve thrown weapons ping mall on Saturday and month.q

Israel orders eviction of Palestinian family from east Jerusalem

property, reigniting a legal battle

By JACK JEFFERY raeli court on Monday or- tested neighborhood of According to Monday’s families from Sheikh Jarrah.
Associated Press dered the eviction of a east Jerusalem, the latest in ruling, the Diab family was Israel captured east Jerusa-
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Is- Palestinian family in a con- a legal saga that has come given until July to vacate lem in the 1967 Mideast war
to symbolize the conflicting the house in Sheikh Jarrah. and annexed the area in a
claims to the holy city. The family said it would ap- move that is not interna-
The Sheikh Jarrah neigh- peal. tionally recognized. Israel
borhood has been the fo- The Israeli magistrate court considers the entire city its
cus of a long-running battle described the case as a capital, while the Palestin-
between government- simple dispute over real es- ians seek east Jerusalem,
backed Israeli settlers and tate, ruling that the extend- home to the city’s most
longtime Palestinian resi- ed Diab family was squat- sensitive holy sites, as the
dents. It’s part of a broader ting in a property owned capital of their future inde-
trend of settlers encroach- by Jews and had no le- pendent state.
ing on Palestinian neigh- gal rights to it. Palestinians Nahalat Shimon is trying to
borhoods in contested east say they have lived in the seize the property under
Jerusalem, and previous homes for decades. an Israeli law allowing Jews
attempts at evictions in The case against the family to reclaim properties that
Sheikh Jarrah have led to was launched by Nahalat were Jewish before Israel
violent clashes and helped Shimon Ltd, a Jewish settler was established in 1948.
spark an 11-day war be- organization that for years Jordan controlled the area
A Palestinian resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east
Jerusalem stands near a sidewalk, Nov. 2, 2021. tween Israel and Hamas in has been involved in legal between 1948 and the
Associated Press 2021. efforts to evict Palestinian 1967 war.q