US EditionIsraeli settlers torch a mosque and scrawl hateful messages after condemnation from military leaders
The mosque attack follows a rare military condemnation and highlights a rise in settler violence displacing 3,535 Palestinians in 2023, according to the UN humanitarian office.
- Israeli settlers overnight torched and defaced a mosque in Deir Istiya, burning one wall, at least three copies of the Quran and some carpeting, an AP reporter observed Thursday.
- Amid the olive-harvest season, long-running settler aggression has intensified as attacks have risen in recent weeks and Gen. Avi Bluth issued a rare denunciation Wednesday.
- Soldiers from Israel's military were present while masked Israeli settlers set vehicles ablaze and clashed with troops Tuesday in Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, West Bank villages.
- Top officials urged decisive action Wednesday, with President Isaac Herzog calling the violence shocking and crossing a red line, while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned of spillover risks.
- October saw a record high in settler attacks, according to the United Nations humanitarian office, while Palestinians and human rights workers accuse the army and police of failing to halt assaults amid far-right influence from Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister, and Itamar Ben-Gvir, Cabinet minister.
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Palestinian residents in the Salfit area, northwest of the West Bank, have woken up Thursday with fear in their bodies that they have to hurry to put out a fire in a mosque. Groups of Israeli settlers, who reside illegally in the territory and spread terror to drive out the local population, sprayed flammable materials at the entrance of the temple in the early morning and painted graffiti with racist messages on their walls, according to Palest…
Israeli settlers burned down and vandalized a mosque in the West Bank, a desaf or the condemnation of the people of Israel for the violence.
Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog on Wednesday condemned attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir also called for an end to the growing wave of violence. But the attackers have since hardened their stance and set fire to a mosque.
Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque, scrawl hateful messages
Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight, scribbling hateful messages in a show of defiance, a day after some Israeli leaders condemned a recent attack by settlers against Palestinians.
Israeli settlers are said to have lubricated racist slogans on the walls of the Muslim prayer house. Israel promises enlightenment. In Bethlehem, which is also located in the West Bank, Israel has arrested about 40 Hamas members.
Israeli settlers torch mosque and spray graffiti in latest West Bank attack
By Zeena Saifi, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Israeli settlers torched a mosque and sprayed it with graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian authorities, the latest in a surge of increasingly brazen settler attacks against Palestinians. The Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said settlers attacked the Hajjah Hamidah Mosque in Salfit in the northern West Bank, calling it a “heinous crime and a blatant assault on…
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