[Curnow:] Welcome back to the International Desk. I'm Robyn Curnow. Well, you're been watching breaking news coverage from our colleagues at CNN USA, and we have an update now, as they've been saying, on that fatal shooting at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. Police say the suspect has been identified as 21-year-old Dylann Roof a relative says law enforcement officers have been at his mother's house. Nine people, including a Bible study class attending a Bible study class, were killed Wednesday night. A law enforcement official says witnesses told them the suspect said he was there to shoot black people. Well, this Charleston church is a building steeped in history. It's been a prominent part of Charleston's African-American community for two centuries now, and it's played a has played host to dignitaries such as Martin Luther King. Visit CNN.com to learn more about the church and it's links to freed slaves and the civil rights movement. You'll find that link at our webpage. Let's move on now. In Israel, 16 Jewish minors who were requested in connection with a church fire at a Christian holy site have been released. Now, Israeli police say the fire at the Church of the Multiplication was intentionally set. CNN's Oren Liebermann joins us now from Israel. He's in an area Called Tabgha, which is at the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. Hi there, what can you tell us about this?
[Oren Liebermann:] Robyn, it's not hard when you look around to see why police are calling this an arson, why they're so confident here. They say two fires started right in this area of the monastery section of the church early this morning just after 3:00 o'clock this morning, and you can see what's left of the monastery, and that is not much. The damage here is almost complete. The destruction from these two fires that burned in here, you can see everything has been charred. Everything has been torched. I'm holding here a holy scripture, a Bible that's in German. This is a Benedictine Monastery here, and you can still feel the heat from the fire that was hours ago, and you can also see the other damage here as firefighters came to put this out, they soaked everything in water, so the damage to the monastery almost complete here. There was also graffiti left by the arsonists, by extremists, and that graffiti reads in red graffiti in Hebrew on an outside wall of the monastery. It says idols will have their heads cut off, or idols will be decapitated. Police very much calling this an extremist case, and because of that lettering, because it's in Hebrew, police very much looking at the possibility that these suspects are Jewish extremists, perhaps from the West Bank, perhaps not, but that's the direction of the investigation, or at least part of the direction of the investigation now. Both sides here, Israelis and Palestinians, condemning this. Both sides speaking out in the strongest language saying the investigation should find these extremists. Police have put the head of their nationalistic crimes unit in charge of this, looking at this as an extremist crime, as a hate crime, to try to find out who would do this. Again, as you mentioned Robyn, police had 16 people, 16 Jewish youths from the West Bank in for questioning. They took their statements and have since released them. As of right now, Robyn, the investigation continues police tell us.
[Curnow:] And Oren tell us the significance of this area.
[Liebermann:] This is one of the most significant areas, not just for Christianity here in the Holy Land, but for Christianity worldwide. This is the Church of the Multiplication, otherwise known as the Church of the Loaves and Fishes. This is where the New Testament says Jesus multiplied two fish and five loaves of bread to feed 5000 people. That's one of the miracles he performed right in this area, but that's not it. This is also significant because we're right near the area where the New Testament says Jesus walked on water, and right near the area where the Bible says Jesus performed the Sermon on the Mount, so it's an incredibly significant region, an incredibly significant area. Again, not just for Christians here, but also for Christians all around the world, and this crime, this arson comes at an incredibly sensitive time, and, of course, a sensitive place. That's because police are looking at the possibility of the Jewish extremists torching a Christian church on the first day of Ramadan, Robyn.
[Curnow:] Thanks so much, Oren Liebermann for that report. We'll have to leave it at that. Thank you. Now, Iraqi tribal fighters may be willing to battle ISIS with Iraq's Army, but they still need to feed their families. Coming up, how a money crunch is hurting morale at a key training base. We're live in Baghdad straight ahead.