Police arrested a 27-year-old Jewish suspect on Monday, accused of spray-painting “There’s a Holocaust in Gaza” on the ancient stones of the Western Wall, Judaism’s second-holiest site.

“A Jerusalem resident was arrested for questioning early this morning on suspicion of spraying graffiti at the Western Wall and in the city center,” the Israel Police said in a statement.

In addition to defacing the Western Wall in the area of the “Ezrat Yisrael” egalitarian prayer space, the suspect stands accused of tagging the outer walls of the city’s Great Synagogue with similar graffiti, the police said.

The suspect was set to be brought before a court later on Monday for a hearing, where the police will request an extension of his detention.

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall,

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