Occupation seizes financial accounts of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem

The head of the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem District Electricity company, Yousef Al Dajani, called for an urgent processing of the file of the crisis of the company’s accumulated debt for the Israeli occupation.

This came after the Israeli water company implemented a court order allowing it to seize the financial accounts of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. Al-Dajani described such step as a dangerous precedent and a warning of dire consequences for the Jerusalemite institutions, whether the religious or the civil ones.

“This development is extremely important and requires that everyone takes seriously his responsibilities” and participate in solving the debt crisis of the Jerusalem Electricity Company owed for the Israeli company, al-Dajani said in a press statement on Sunday.

He pointed out that not paying the electricity bills by some citizens and institutions and the continuation of thefts were the main results of the electricity company’s debt crisis, adding that the Israeli authorities are serious in their threats.

Al-Dajani also noted in his statement that the developments in the case of the Church of the Resurrection and the Orthodox Church prove that Israeli bodies do not respect the church’s sanctities and customs and represent very serious and alarming indicators.