Israeli soldier seen striking Jesus statue in Lebanon, sparking condemnation [View all]

A photo emerged over the weekend showing a soldier in southern Lebanon taking what appeared to be an axe or sledgehammer to the face of the statue, sparking outrage.

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Alongside the photo of the incident, Tirawi said a local page from the Christian border town of Debel mentioned that the statue belonged to them. Reuters spoke to a local priest, Fadi Falfel, who said the cross was part of a small shrine in the garden of a family living on the edge of the village.

“One of the Israeli soldiers broke the cross and did this horrible thing, this desecration of our holy symbols,” he said.

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Nearly a third of Lebanon’s population is Christian, according to the State Department, citing Statistics Lebanon, an independent polling and research firm.

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