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Taybeh village under attack: live shootings and assaults while trying to extinguish a bonfire

Yesterday evening, Tuesday, at about eight thirty, we were confronted with a new attack. It was complex, alarming, and difficult to understand or justify.

The events started with a fire, mainly in a large area of Jabal Al-Masis area opposite the gas station. Palestinian civil defense crews were initially prevented from reaching the site due to incomplete the required security coordination, which allowed the fires to spread and threaten neighboring lands and properties.

In the face of this danger, a number of the town’s youth stepped up to help put out the fire by bringing a water tanker to the area. But they, instead of allowing them to perform their humanitarian duty, have been subjected to siege and ban by settlers. Then things escalated when another group of young men were assaulted. A number of them…

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Live from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Br. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, Custos of the Holy Land, presides over the Vigil with Office of Readings for Holy Saturday — a solemn nocturnal prayer at the heart of Christianity's most sacred site.

This ancient Franciscan liturgy from the Liturgy of the Hours marks the sacred transition from Holy Saturday to the dawn of the Resurrection of the Lord. Prayed within the sacred space of the Edicule of the Holy Sepulchre, this vigil unites the faithful in prayer at the very site where Christ rose from the dead

 Gethesmane Jerusalem, March 29, 2026 

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, may the Lord give you peace. 

We are here at Gethesmane, the place where Jesus, having reached the culmination of his journey to Jerusalem, paused and wept. His gaze did not rest on the majestic walls or the splendor of the Temple; it penetrated the heart of the city he loved, and there he saw its struggle in recognizing the time of grace. 

In this afternoon of Palm Sunday we gather without a procession, without palms waving through the streets. This absence is not merely a matter of formalities. It is the war that has interrupted our festive journey, making even the simple joy of following our King difficult. Our brothers and sisters of the Holy Land cannot fill the streets this Sunday nor join their voices to the festive procession. Their absence is not empty before the Lord. He does not seek triumphal roads, but enters where the door is left ajar, where daily fidelity is…

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