The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem condemned a "heinous" attack by masked Israeli settlers on Palestinian olive harvesters and a visiting European diplomatic delegation in the village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah. They called the incident part of "wide-scale terror by settlers" and criticized an Israeli Rabbi's ruling permitting settlers to take Palestinians’ olives as "unfounded, very worrying and dangerous, and absolutely unacceptable".