Israeli foreign ministry denounce ‘shameful act’ after footage shows man pushing woman to the ground and kicking her
A video of an attack on a French Catholic nun and archeological researcher in Jerusalem has caused widespread revulsion and has been denounced as a “shameful act” by Israel’s foreign ministry.
In the video, a man runs up behind the nun as she walks down a street and pushes her over with force, so that the victim comes close to hitting her head on a block of stone. After walking away a few paces, the attacker, who appears to be Jewish, returns to kick the nun as she lay on the ground and only stops when a passerby intervenes.
The nun suffered grazing to the face, but was not reported to be seriously injured. The Israeli police said they have arrested a 36-year-old man, and said the force “will continue to act with a heavy hand and zero tolerance in order to preserve and maintain the proper and safe fabric of life for all ethnicities and religions in the city of Jerusalem”.
The attack took place on Mount Zion, near to the site revered by Jewish people as King David’s tomb, and the Cenacle, traditionally held by Christians to be site of the Last Supper.
