News - US petitions to Israel regarding Jerusalem Armenians

The United States has petitioned to Israel regarding the Armenians of Jerusalem. "No specific response to that. But we have said on a number of occasions, we do not want to see the Government of Israel take any steps that would escalate tensions," said Matthew Miller, Spokesperson of the US Department of State, during Wednesday’s Department press briefing. Earlier, top authorities in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem expressed deep concern that the Israeli government was using the conflict in Gaza to push out a lot of Armenian Christians from the Armenian Quarter. This conflict is linked to the region around of the "Cows’ Garden" area of the Armenian Quarter.