Does anyone remember that they claimed to not be assaulting the Church at all?

Israeli Says Army Shot Monk in Error
An Armenian monk seriously wounded in the besieged compound of the Church of the Nativity was apparently shot by an Israeli soldier who mistook him for a gunman, a senior Israeli military official has said.

The army initially said the monk was shot by one of the 200 armed Palestinians thought to be holed up in the church, one of Christianity's holiest shrines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/international/middleeast/13MONK.html