Palestinian officials in Athens issued a statement claiming that a top official of the Greek Orthodox Church had blamed Israeli settlers for the recent shooting death of a Greek monk in the West Bank — an attack widely attributed to Palestinian gunmen. After officials at the Greek Foreign Ministry learned that the church official never made such a claim, the ministry called on the Palestinians to issue a retraction. The Palestinians refused.
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