20Attacks on Christians: Jerusalem harassment and Gaza church killings
- Clergy spat on in Jerusalem's Old City — monitors logged at least one attack a day.
- A mother and daughter shot “in cold blood” inside Gaza's Catholic parish, per the Latin Patriarchate.
- Eighteen people sheltering in a church killed two months earlier; the Pope condemned both.
According to CNN and Israeli press reporting, spitting attacks by ultra-Orthodox and nationalist Jews on Christian clergy, pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem's Old City escalated through 2023–2024 — monitors recorded near-daily incidents, and Israeli police made arrests after officials including Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the practice. In Gaza, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said an Israeli sniper shot dead Nahida Anton and her daughter Samar "in cold blood" inside the Holy Family Catholic parish compound on 16 December 2023 — a killing Pope Francis condemned and the IDF denied responsibility for — two months after an Israeli strike on the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius compound killed 18 displaced people sheltering there, according to church officials.
The record — 15 sources
Date, publication and headline for each source, as the source itself published them. Sorted by publication date. 15 of 15 dated; a blank means the publisher's page didn't expose it, and we don't guess.