Christians across the Holy Land face a rising tide of hostility and violence, with critics saying attackers have been emboldened by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, according to a Washington Post report.

In April, a Jewish Israeli man from the occupied West Bank shoved a French Catholic nun to the ground and kicked her in Jerusalem’s Mount Zion neighborhood in what Israeli police called an act of “religious hostility.”

The assault was captured on surveillance video. Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of the Dormition Abbey, said Christians are routinely “hit, spit at, beaten,” warning that countless attacks go undocumented.

The violence risks alienating U.S. evangelicals, traditionally among Israel’s most ardent American supporters.

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