Evangelical Christians in America strongly support Israel, seeing it as crucial for end-times prophecy and the return of the Christian Messiah.
Holding US and Israeli flags, a crowd of largely Evangelical Christians pray during the Christians United For Israel 'Night to Honour Israel' / Photo: AP Archive
They believe Israel is key to an end-times prophecy that will bring about the return of the Christian Messiah. Many of these Christians support Israel due to Old Testament writings that Jews are God's chosen people and that Israel is their rightful homeland. Israel's Tourism Ministry estimates around one-third to half of the approximately 3,000 daily visitors expected to arrive in March are part of faith-based volunteer trips. Before Israel's war on besieged Gaza, around 15,000 visitors arrived in Israel per day, about half of whom were Christian, according to Tourism Ministry statistics.
Israel has so far killed more than 31,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and vows to press its invasion further deep into Gaza's south. Landis was part of a two-week volunteer trip to Israel organised by an Evangelical group called International Christian Embassy Jerusalem , which has put together five volunteer trips since January and expects to bring half a dozen more in the coming month. Normally, ICEJ brings about 6,000 Christian visitors to Israel annually.
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