The camp was abandoned after the IDF made it clear they would use force to evacuate the encampment. The Iranian judge trying the Jews arrested as part of an alleged spy ring is reported to have said that the decision in the case is after all a political matter. The judge remarked that it is up to government officials, who must consider the overall good of Iran.
Churches Close their doors over mosque dispute.
Leaders of the Latin, Orthodox and Armenian Churches closed the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, among other places of worship, to protest plans to build a mosque near the basilica in Nazareth. The Nazareth Orthodox Council defied a directive by the patriarchate and kept open its own Basilica of the Annunciation, one of two such basilicas in Nazareth. Council leaders explained in a manifesto that the decision to close the sanctuaries was fundamentally wrong, since it deepens the conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nazareth. The churches whose keys are in the hands of the priests, who are at the beck and call of the patriarchate, are closed. The decision to allow building of the mosque was made after unrelenting Moslem pressure.