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Israeli police barred Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday 2026, marking the first such denial in centuries and triggering a diplomatic firestorm involving the Vatican, Italy, France, and the United States. The incident, which Israel attributed to security concerns from the ongoing Iran war, has raised urgent questions about the future of the centuries-old Status Quo arrangement governing Christian access to Jerusalem's holiest sites, with Holy Week and the Orthodox Easter Holy Fire ceremony still ahead.