WARRIOR, Ala. (WIAT) — A Jefferson County church is speaking out after more than 1,200 Israeli flags were stolen from its property and thrown into dumpsters overnight Friday.

Pastor Robyn R. Bullock of Church International in Warrior said the flags had been displayed outside the church to honor the victims of the October 7th attacks in Israel. By the time church leaders discovered the theft, most of the flags had already been hauled away.

“They were put in two different dumpsters and the one dumpster, the garbage service came and they took it away,” Bullock said. “The ones that we found were in the middle of the smoky garbage water.”

The church was able to recover about 300 of the flags, cleaning and re-displaying them outside the property. But Bullock said the act was hateful.

“As a p

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