Disclaimer, it wasn’t me. I was at work. Also I didn’t even know this church existed until a few minutes ago.
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/10/03/more-than-1000-israeli-flags-stolen-anchorage-church/
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Staff with Mountain City Church said more than 1,000 Israeli flags were stolen from their lawn early Friday morning.
Serge Duchatellier, Director of Security with the church, said he and other staff members placed around 1,200 Israeli flags on their lawn on Thursday.
In a video shared with Alaska’s News Source, four individuals can be seen being dropped off by a truck, which turned into a nearby neighborhood as they began collecting the flags.
After a few minutes, the truck arrived back in front of the church. The individuals placed the collected flags in the back of the truck before going to collect more.
After around fifteen minutes in total, all the flags had been taken from the lawn. The individuals climbed back into the truck as it drove away.
According to Duchatellier, the flags were set up to commemorate the October 7th, 2023, attacks on Israel by the Hamas militant group. 1,219 Israelis were reported to have been killed during the attack.
Since the attacks, 73,419 Palestinians are reported to have been killed by Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. The conflict in the Middle east has spread to include other nations, including Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran.
“A lot of folks on staff assumed somebody was going to try to do something,” Duchatellier said.
“We didn’t know exactly what they would do, but we felt that they might try to do something, maybe kick them down or things of that nature. We weren’t really expecting them to all be taken.”
Duchatellier said the flags were also set up in advance of a planned sermon on Sunday that would discuss what the church felt the Bible said about Israel.
“How should Christians feel about Israel?” Duchatellier said.
“Not necessarily do we support the things that are occurring within their government right now, but just as a general consensus, how should we feel?”
While Duchatellier said a report has been made to police, it has been difficult to identify the individuals or vehicle involved.
However, based on the security footage, he believes the individuals are younger, possibly around high school age.
“Based on their demeanor and the way that they’re acting, as cars are driving by, they’re hiding behind trees and behind rocks, trying not to be seen,” he said.
Despite the controversial subject matter, Duchatellier said he does not feel that the incident was spurred by antisemitism or other forms of bigotry.
“It appears to be not necessarily malicious vandalism,” he said.
“It’s vandalism, nevertheless, and theft, but more so something that’s done by younger people versus maybe somebody with an ill intent per se.”
Duchatellier said he and staff plan to replace all the flags stolen before Sunday.
Since the attacks, 73,419 Palestinians are reported to have been killed by Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip
This number is genocide denial. Population loss is around 700k to 1 million per multiple studies, much of which was due to knock-off effects of the destruction of the health system and siege and starvation of the people. Vulnerable populations like the elderly and disabled have been nearly wiped out. The only reason there are still children around is that Gaza’s median age is very low to start with because older generations are “mowed” by Israel at regular intervals, which also has created many more disabled individuals with injuries and amputations.
It also doesn’t include Israel’s murders in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Iran or Yemen.
Are those Christians in the know about what the IDF is doing to their Brothers and Sisters in Christ in Lebanon?
american protestants don’t consider anybody but themselves to be truly Christian. they are like wahhabis in this regard.
the 70k number is the last update from the health ministry that hasn’t been able to operate since then, right?
The ministry of health unfortunately is not able to excavate rubble in a war zone and are nearly defunct, with all of their hospitals and reporting systems being obliterated. They also were only counting direct deaths from Israeli strikes that could be confirmed with a body. They weren’t counting deaths from the ISIS gangs that Israel let loose, or the mercenaries who “guarded aid” and shot people randomly constantly, or starvation, or loss of medication, or loss of medical services, or increases in deaths from child birth, exposure, etc.
73,419 is the official count of the ministry as of Aug 22, 2026.
This article published Oct 3 ought to have had access to Sept 27’s 74,018 if not updating it to Oct 3’s 74,228 martyrs. It is short 809 murders even by very cautious counting.
But as described in the Lancet, in such situations
Indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths.
so you can multiply those numbers by some factor. Those authors suggest adding 4x as “conservative”: 74,018 x 4 + 74,018 = 370,090
It’s just a guess, and it is a lowball. Still a lot of flags to put out on your lawn.
“A lot of folks on staff assumed somebody was going to try to do something,” Duchatellier said.
“We didn’t know exactly what they would do, but we felt that they might try to do something, maybe kick them down or things of that nature. We weren’t really expecting them to all be taken.”
Some teenagers really kicked this psycho’s ass. It sounds like he put all those flags out just hoping and begging for some sort of symbolic crime to be done one them. Probably jacking off thinking of what a hero/martyr he can be, photographed pulling the flags out of the dirt, dusting them off, and being so defiant. Or throwing his body down on top to protect them. Instead some good Samaritans came along and courteously cleaned up the litter from his yard like it was fucking Earth Day.
If he was smarter maybe he would point out that the flags were all “kidnapped” and how even that is such a big travesty lol. They should put up MISSING posters in town for the flags.
Duchatellier said he and staff plan to replace all the flags stolen before Sunday.
Maybe it was just whoever runs the tiny flag business in Anchorage looking to double their sales.
For sale
1000 flags
Lightly used
“A lot of folks on staff assumed somebody was going to try to do something,” Duchatellier said.
“We didn’t know exactly what they would do, but we felt that they might try to do something, maybe kick them down or things of that nature. We weren’t really expecting them to all be taken.”
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While Duchatellier said a report has been made to police, it has been difficult to identify the individuals or vehicle involved.
However, based on the security footage, he believes the individuals are younger, possibly around high school age.
“Based on their demeanor and the way that they’re acting, as cars are driving by, they’re hiding behind trees and behind rocks, trying not to be seen,” he said.
Despite the controversial subject matter, Duchatellier said he does not feel that the incident was spurred by antisemitism or other forms of bigotry.
“It appears to be not necessarily malicious vandalism,” he said.
“It’s vandalism, nevertheless, and theft, but more so something that’s done by younger people versus maybe somebody with an ill intent per se.”
LMAO. So instead of Antifa black bloc or a Hamas sleeper cell coming out of the woodwork to
his church, it was the 16 year olds who come every Sunday to his services because their parents make them and look deeply uncomfortable whenever he goes on a tirade about the plight of the poor people of Israel.I bet he knows exactly who took the flags. I hope it will cause some self reflection.
Alternate headline: Community litter pick up event was big success
Business idea: set up an online storefront that drop ships Israeli flags, and send the addresses of all the purchasers to local pro-Palestinian groups. Pay them half the value of each flag when sent back to you. Resell the flags.
Imagine if a catholic church put up flags of mexico, they’d get fire bombed.
why do they even have 1000 israel flags out in the first place
october 7th bellyaching
wonder how many of the 1200 “Israeli” “victims” were killed by their own helicopter gunships, and how many of those were active IDF or armed combatants.
Trying to win the “capture the flag” game by trying to have too many flags to capture.
Ain’t no such thing lmao
That is way too many flag.
Bunch of tin cans…
Should have just piled them up and light it up.
