Two armed Israeli settlers stormed the grounds of the Orthodox Church in Mount Zion in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday.

Once they arrived at the holy site, the two settlers laid blankets on the ground and refused to leave when asked. 

In a video circulating on social media, the two settlers hurled racist slogans at the clergy. "Mount Zion is for the Jewish people, and every minute that you spend here is like looting," one of them said.