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Jan 3, 2023, 6:08 PM | Updated: Jan 5, 2023, 12:28 pm

Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, pauses where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at ...

Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, pauses where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

(AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)


              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, points to a damaged grave where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, walks with other clergy where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, pauses next to a damaged grave where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, right, stands with a colleague where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, walks with other clergy where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, touches a damaged grave where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, walks where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              A grave lies in ruins where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              A head stone is toppled where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
            
              Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, pauses where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

JERUSALEM (AP) — In a story published January 4, 2023, The Associated Press reported, citing a statement from the Episcopal diocese, that three graves among several vandalized in an attack on Sunday belonged to three Palestinian police officers who died during the British mandate years. The story should have made clear that the three officers were British citizens in the police force of what was then British-ruled Palestine.

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