The Israeli apartheid state moved to freeze the funds of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and impose exorbitant taxes on its properties with the aim of besieging it and limiting its ability to carry out its spiritual and humanitarian missions, threatening its role towards its congregation from among the Palestinian Arab people, and tightening the noose more and more on followers of the Christian faith with the aim of soft displacement and altering the demographic, cultural, and religious character of the Holy City on the path of emptying it of its inhabitants, while confiscating the lands of the Church considered the largest landowner in historic Palestine and continuing its assaults on its lands around the Monastery of Saint Jarāsīmūs (Deir Ḥijla) near Arīḥā to expand colonial settlement in the area. At the same time, it carries out attacks on Catholic churches in the village of Ṭayba and other Palestinian lands for the same criminal purpose of emptying Palestinian towns of their indigenous inhabitants, Christians and Muslims alike, in blatant violation of historical status, law, and international charters and treaties, according to church sources on Saturday, August 16, 2025.