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Islamic State in Syria demolishes ancient Mar Elian monastery

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Islamic State released images showing militants preparing the Mar Elian monastery for demolition
Islamic State released images showing militants preparing the Mar Elian monastery for demolition
Islamic State (IS) militants have demolished the ancient Christian monastery of Mar Elian in the central Syrian town of al-Qaryatain.

The militants have also moved Christians taken captive in the town to their stronghold of Raqqa, according to a UK-based monitoring group.

IS captured al-Qaryatain from government forces some two weeks ago.

Photos showed the group bulldozing parts of the monastery, which was founded more than 1,500 years ago.

IS also transferred more than 100 captives to Raqqa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

But the group says the fate of 230 people kidnapped after al-Qaryatain’s capture remains unclear, including Jacques Mourad, a prominent local priest who had been working at the Mar Elian monastery.

The altar inside Mar Elian monastery
The altar inside Mar Elian monastery
IS regards Christians as infidels. The threat of violence and persecution from the militants has forced many Christian communities from their homes in Syria and northern Iraq.

Al-Qaryatain was captured in the militants’ first major offensive since May, when they seized the historic town of Palmyra, famed for its Roman-style ruins.

More than 230,000 Syrians have died in the civil war, which began after anti-government protests in March 2011.

Rebel groups that originally fought against the government of President Bashar al-Assad have also been battling each other in an increasingly complex and bloody conflict.

Golan strikes

In a separate development, at least five people have died in an Israeli strike on a Syrian-held section of the Golan Heights.

Israel has carried out a series of raid in the area, which lies in south-western Syria, after rockets fired from Syria struck its territory on Thursday. The rockets set fire to scrubland but did not cause any casualties.

Israel’s military has accused Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad group of firing the rockets, who Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had given “sponsorship and instruction” to.

While the Israelis said five or six militants were killed, a Syrian army source, quoted on Syrian state TV, said the strike killed five civilians.

One Syrian soldier was earlier reported killed in an Israeli strike on military positions in the Syrian-held section of the Golan Heights.

Israel seized most of the Golan Heights from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War.

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29 responses to “Islamic State in Syria demolishes ancient Mar Elian monastery”

  1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    Those mother fuckers that’s it.. I am doing Jihad on the Caliph and his tribe. i have had it with them.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      I don’t see any outrage from Western Christian countries..

      1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
        nagy_michael2

        Yes I know but no offense i thought hezbollah were protecting the christians too. what happened?

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          You must read Western Catholics brainwashed Evangelical ignorance of Levant Arameans (The Ancient Arameans of Syria)..
          http://www.aramnahrin.org/English/Arameans_Of_Syria.htm

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        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Who cared about Qssayr in 2013? http://www.fides.org/en/news/33906-ASIA_SYRIA_Rape_and_atrocities_on_a_young_Christian_in_Qusair#.VdlC9xt_Okp

          US the World Richest country is busy helping Arab richest country Saudi Arabia destroying Arab poorest country Yemen.

        3. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Hezbollah’s War against ISIS
          http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2014/08/31/hezbollahs-war-against-isis/

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Iraqi Christians Form Babylonian Brigades Militia, Battle ISIS
      http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/iraqi-christians-fighting-isis-form-babylonian-brigades-militia-n387376

      1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
        nagy_michael2

        Hind there are 42 fighters lol. all i was trying to tell you that Nassrallah is protecting the Christian. Aoun followed that if it wouldn’t be for hezbollah there wouldn’t be any christians. so yes I agree with the west and the US is busy with something else instead of helping and training christians. But again we are referring to the leaders at home whom they said that again they are protecting christians. again the war zone is in Syria so aren’t hezbollah protecting the Syrian christians then?

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          They don’have not enough power i guess, i don’know, they saved Qssayr and since have have been attacked by Israel and Western media
          New York Review of Books offers Israel as a model 2 US on targeted killings & detention for terrorists http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/targeted-detention-terrorists …

  2. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
    Michaelinlondon1234

    So now the Syria government can bomb the town of Al-Qaryatain flat…..

  3. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    So it’s Saudi money or Jewish Money who change the Middle East as we knew it …so there….the End.
    https://www.oximity.com/article/%D9%87%D9%84-%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%83%D9%86-11

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        Hind Abyad

        it says: Uh oh… the infamous ‘404 error’! Looks like you used an incomplete or incorrect web address… (the geeks call it a ‘404 error’) Go to Oximity home page

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          no it is firefox says for windows users, since i’m on linux nothing harm can not to be for me, i visited your linked untrusted site without problem

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            so what’s the problem.

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            MS Windows, also for aramean fonts not out of the box

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Not my business

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova condemns the destruction of the Mar Elias Monastery in Syria
    Posted on Aug 22, 2015 – http://al-bushra.org/?p=1503

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      Irina is communist daughter

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        So what?

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          she is known problematic with condemns or not condemns, she is political and bureaucratic interesant

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Morris cites similar testimonies.14 A village elder (Mukhtar) is cited as handing a list of 580 killed to the Jordanian governor of Hebron at the time. Morris details the life of Yosef Nachmani, a high-ranking member of the underground Haganah forces, the precursor to Israeli Army. Nachmani was also director of the offices of the Jewish National Fund in Tiberias. Nachmani was responsible for settling land throughout the Galilee and Jezreel Valley regions. At first, he supported the Palestinian transfer, but later in his life he underwent a profound change. One entry in Nachmani’s journal Morris translates, “The acts of cruelty committed by our soldiers. After they went into Safsaf, the village and its people raised a white flag. They separated the men from the women, tied the hands of some 50 to 60 peasants and shot and killed them, burying them in a single hole. They also raped a number of the women from the village…In Salha, which raised a white flag, they carried out a real massacre, killing men and women, about 60 to 70 people. Where did they find such a degree of cruelty like that of the Nazis? They learned from them.”

            Recently released Red Crescent documents also strongly suggest that the first time biological warfare was used was in Palestine in 1948, when diseases were spread in Haifa and ‘Akka (Acre).15

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          Yeshayahu Hollander · ALL
          were very far removed from Jewish culture. Not ONE was a religious Jew.
          This is an excellent example of – not Jewish murderousness, but of
          Secular Murderousness. In much less time the Chinese communists also
          killed about 20 million of the Chinese middle class

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Discus it with Ynet

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Really?

            Benny Morris “Jews and Arabs in Palestine ⁄ Israel, 1936-1956 (2000)”

            “Based on declassified and newly opened archives from Israeli government and military sources detail the removal of many Palestinians villages to create room for the Jewish State and its intent to import millions of Jews.

            213 Palestinian villages and towns (population 413,794, 52% of the refugees) were “cleansed” while under the “protection” of the British mandate; that is before the start of the Arab-Israeli war on May 15, 1948. 264 localities with 339,272 inhabitants (42%) were vacated during 1948 War. After signing the Armistice Agreements, 54 localities were ethnically cleansed (52,001 people or 6% of refugees).

            Menahem Begin, who later became a Prime Minister of Israel (founder of the Likud), gloated about the massacre in his book about this period: “The legend in Deir Yassin helped us in particular in the saving of Tiberia and the conquest of Haifa…All the Jewish forces proceeded to advance through Haifa like a knife through butter. The Arabs began fleeing in panic, shouting Deir Yassin…Arabs throughout the country were seized by limitless panic and started to flee for their lives.”9

  5. Fauzia45 Avatar
    Fauzia45

    These uncompromising intolerant ignorant creatures will continue to kill and destroy until they are stopped!!!

    1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
      nagy_michael2

      you are 100% correct.

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