An Arabic news site, Gulf News Online, reported last month that an official of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem said he supports \"martyrdom by Palestinian men and women.\" Addressing a packed crowd in Abu Dhabi, Father Dr. Attallah Hanna, official spokesman of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, said that such martyrdom is part of the struggle against Israel, emphasizing, according to Gulf News, that the Church \"fully supports the uprising to achieve

the objectives of freedom from Israel.\"