{"id":22601,"date":"2026-05-07T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/22601\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:14:21","slug":"photo-shows-israeli-soldier-desecrating-a-virgin-mary-statue-in-lebanon-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/22601\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo shows Israeli soldier desecrating a Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Photo shows Israeli soldier desecrating a Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRfvdimEWmc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto shows Israeli soldier desecrating a Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Israeli military says it has launched an investigation, after a photo went viral showing one of its soldiers desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in South Lebanon, placing\u00a0a cigarette into the statue&#8217;s mouth whilst smoking. The IDF said it &#8220;respects freedom of religion&#8221; and that the soldier will be disciplined. The incident took place in the same village where last month, an Israeli soldier was filmed smashing a Jesus statue with a sledgehammer. Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.<br \/>\n#southlebanon #israeliarmy #virginmary<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo shows Israeli soldier desecrating a Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon \u2022 FRANCE 24 English The Israeli military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[71,712,7443,25581,7307,9981,25585,25586,13631,22,23,20,21,63,273,39,9594,25587,12712,2842,5789,65,25582,46,25583,25584,868],"class_list":["post-22601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-attack","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-catholic-church","tag-christian-attacks","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-debel","tag-desecration","tag-explainer","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israeli-army","tag-israeli-soldier","tag-jesus-christ","tag-jews","tag-judaism","tag-lebanon","tag-maronite-christian","tag-military","tag-nad","tag-nadav-shoshani","tag-south-lebanon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116534901863659548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}