DM Monitoring
Israeli settlers set fire overnight to a mosque in a village in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said Sunday, as an AFP journalist saw the structure’s entrance scorched and Hebrew graffiti sprayed on its walls.
The settlers also set fire to two houses and a dairy factory, he said, adding the attackers spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on the walls of the mosque.
The Palestinian religious affairs ministry condemned the attack.
In a statement, the ministry described the arson as “a full-fledged terrorist act”, accusing Israel’s “extremist occupation government” of encouraging settler violence in an effort to displace Palestinians from Masafer Yatta and turn the conflict into “a religious war”.
