{"id":243333,"date":"2020-12-07T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=243333"},"modified":"2020-12-08T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:10:51","slug":"fire-at-church-in-jerusalem-7-dec-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/fire-at-church-in-jerusalem-7-dec-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Church in Jerusalem \u2013 7 Dec. 2020 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>7 DECEMBER 2020<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 My second question, in a tweet of Mr. Nickolay Mladenov about the arsenal against the church, a famous church in Palestine near Jerusalem, he used the word \u201carsonist\u201d. While he was a settler, he was caught by the Palestinian.\u00a0 He was handed to the police.\u00a0 He is 49\u2011year\u2011old.\u00a0 And the word \u201carsonist\u201d is very vague.\u00a0 He\u2026 instead of saying he is an extremist settler who try to set a famous historic church on fire.\u00a0 Do you have any comment on that?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019m not sure what you want me to say.\u00a0 I mean, I think\u2026 I mean, I\u2019m\u2026 I will\u2026 I think the word \u201carsonist\u201d is a very strong word.\u00a0 It denotes a criminal intent to do harm by setting fire.\u00a0 I\u2019m\u2026 I\u2019ll leave it at that.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a native English speaker, but to me, \u201carsonist\u201d has always been a very strong and direct word.<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Yeah, the nationality of this arsonist is vague, so that is what also is missing.\u00a0 I mean, he should say Israeli arsonist.\u00a0 I thought that clarifying the nationality of the arsonist is important in this incident.<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Noted.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. 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