Palestinians rioted over a report that Jews had bought Christian property in Jerusalem. Several hundred Palestinians converged on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Saturday, intent on confronting Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos I after an Israeli newspaper reported that one of his assistants had sold Old City land to Jews.
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