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September 12, 2015

Priest offers Mass daily at destroyed West Bank olive orchards

Fr. Aktham Hijazin of Beit Jalla, West Bank, celebrates Mass Sept. 3 in front of Israeli border police. Israel is uprooting the trees to make the way for the controversial separation barrier in the Cremisan Valley.

BEIT JALLA, West Bank - Since hundreds of olive trees were uprooted to make room for a separation barrier through the Cremisan Valley adjacent to this largely Christian village, Fr. Aktham Hijazin, Annunciation parish priest, has been celebrating Mass daily behind red-and-white police tape.

Published in International