The Human Rights and Democracy Media Center ( Shams ) said that the occupation state 's restriction and limitation of the number of Christian believers heading to Jerusalem to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and celebrate the Holy Saturday and the glorious Easter , is another form of racism practiced by the occupying state against the Palestinians.

The center stated in a statement issued by it that freedom of movement and movement is a right guaranteed in international human rights law, especially in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and is also guaranteed in international humanitarian law, and that freedom of religion and belief and the right to access religious places and places of worship An inherent right for every human being guaranteed by all international human rights conventions and all heavenly laws.

And "Shams" stressed that freedom of movement and the right to access holy places and places of worship is an inherent right and not a favor from anyone who can limit or prevent it whenever he wants, and it is a right attached to a person regardless of color, race, sex, national origin or belief. .

The "SHAMS" center also stressed that what the occupying state is doing is a blatant and dangerous attack on the religious rights of Palestinian Christians, and represents a new chapter of the chapters, policies and procedures of apartheid (apartheid) in the occupied Palestinian territories, and expresses a double exclusionary and biased racist policy, and is considered a consecration system of systematic apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories.

He pointed out that the occupying state uses the policy of double standards; At a time when the occupying state allows extremist settlers to desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to reach the so-called "Joseph's Tomb" in Nablus under strict guard and protection from the Israeli occupation army forces and in countless numbers, it limits the numbers and restricts the movement of faithful Christians who come to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in The city of Jerusalem on the occasion of the glorious Christian holidays.

And it prevents believers, Muslims and Christians in the Gaza Strip, from reaching places of worship in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

"Shams" also warned of the new occupation measures that may be a prelude to new Israeli Judaization policies aimed at preventing Palestinians from reaching places of worship and praying in them, whether they are Christians or Muslims. religious war.

The Center called on the countries of the whole world, especially the countries of the European Union, to the need for immediate intervention and pressure on the Israeli occupation state in order to stop this racist and exclusionary policy that violates the most basic religious rights of believers. The Center also called on the Vatican State and the Holy See in the Holy Land to intervene urgently to stop these Israeli practices. Immoral and illegal, which reveal the ugly face of the occupation, which has always been sung and boasted that it is a microcosm of the West in the Middle East and that it is the protector of religious places and sanctities in the Holy Land and the protector of Christians from injustice and persecution in the East.