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Israeli settlers torch a mosque and scrawl hateful messages after condemnation from military leaders
The attack on Hajja Hamida mosque is part of over 2,350 settler assaults recorded in October, amid rising tensions linked to the Gaza war and olive harvest season.
- 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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Zeena Saifi, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN - Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and vandalized it with graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian authorities, in the latest in a series of increasingly dangerous settler attacks against Palestinians. The Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs reported that the settlers attacked the Hajjah Hamidah Mosque in Salfit, in the northern West Bank, calling it “an atrocious crime an…
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The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, calling them terrorists, while Palestinian authorities in Ramallah warned that Israeli settlers had set fire to a mosque in the occupied territory.
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