Thousands of Christians around the world began a signing campaign to stop the Israeli attack on the Coptic monastery of the Sultan in Jerusalem.
The campaign appealed to the United Nations, Human Rights Organization, the US Senate and officials of the White House to stop the attacks by the Israeli police forces on the monastery and the use excessive force.
Ownership of the monastery has been always to the Coptic orthodox church that had all the documents to prove so, and had a decision of the high Israeli court which said that the monastery known by the locals as Deir al sultan must back to the hand of the Coptic church the soley owner of it.
