Palestinians

(asked on 3rd February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 6 January (HL3722), what assessment they have made of the kidnap and forcible conversion of Christians in Gaza and of attacks on Christian property there; and what evaluation they have made of the decrease in the Christian population in Gaza since 2007.


This question was answered on 11th February 2015

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) speaks to a range of Gazan interlocutors, including from the Christian community, on a regular basis. There have been no allegations raised with the FCO recently of kidnap and forcible conversions of Christians in the Gaza Strip. During 2014’s Operation Protective Edge, churches in Gaza opened to shelter displaced people from Christian and Muslim communities.

A survey conducted in 2014 by non-governmental organisations suggests that the Christian community decreased from 1375 in 2007 to 1313 in March 2014.

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