Ah yes, it's an Armenian priest pleading with one of those brutish IDF soldiers who is obviously roughing him up. It's not until the last line of the story (on the following page) that Reuters comes clean:
By that time of course, most readers have either fallen asleep or logged off in disgust at the sight of those barbarous Israelis.While the rich diversity of Christian worship in the city is a joy to many, scenes of armed Israeli police and troops having to pull rival priests, notably Greeks and Armenians, off each other within feet of Jesus’s tomb in recent times have done little to burnish the kind of ecumenism many church leaders preach.
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