Israeli soldiers entered Ramallah's Lutheran School of Hope on Tuesday (April 16), reportedly breaking down doors, shattering glass and wielding sledgehammers inside the institution in the latest of a spate of military incursions into church institutions around the West Bank

Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan of Jerusalem protested what he described as a pattern of Israeli intrusions and destruction of church property -- even in sites where no armed Palestinian gunmen had taken refuge and military confrontations aren't now taking place.