Israeli settler to go on trial over attack on French nun in Jerusalem

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Israeli settler to go on trial over attack on French nun in Jerusalem

An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel’s justice ministry has …

An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel’s justice ministry has said. The attack on the nun, a 48-year-old researcher at Jerusalem’s French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, occurred on Mount Zion, just outside the Old City. The suspect, Yona Simcha Schreiber, 36, is from a settlement in the occupied West Bank named Peduel. …

Original source: The Guardian World

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