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Israeli court acquits Jewish settler who kicked Catholic nun in the head
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>An <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> court has acquitted Yona Schreiber, a Jewish settler from the occupied West Bank settlement of Peduel, over a <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-man-assaults-nun-jerusalem" target="_blank">violent assault</a> on a French Catholic nun near Jerusalem’s Old City earlier this year.</p>
<p>The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court acquitted Schreiber on Wednesday on the grounds of "mental illness".</p>
<p>Following the ruling, Schreiber’s lawyer, Idan Gamliel, <a href="https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/local/1092947/" target="_blank">described</a> the attack as an “unfortunate incident” and said the defence took “note” of the nun’s “difficult feelings” over the assault.</p>
<p>Schreiber attacked the 48-year-old nun in April outside the Cenacle on Mount Zion, a site regarded as holy by Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>The nun, a researcher at Jerusalem’s French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, required medical treatment after Schreiber pushed her to the ground and kicked her in the head.</p>
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<figcaption>The 48-year-old nun was attacked on 28 April 2026 in occupied East Jerusalem, leaving her face bruised (Handout via Israeli police)</figcaption>
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