Hawzah News Agency- Anti-settlement activist Suleiman Dawabsheh told Anadolu that a group of settlers infiltrated the village before dawn and set fire to the mosque.
Residents quickly extinguished the flames with the help of crews from the Palestinian Civil Defense before it had a chance to spread inside the building, he added.
Dawabsheh said the blaze damaged the mosque’s entrance, while smoke spread inside the prayer hall, causing damage to interior facades and prayer carpets.
He added that settlers wrote Hebrew slogans on the mosque’s exterior walls.
The Palestinian Awqaf and Religious Affairs Ministry decried what it described as a growing number of attempts to burn mosques in the occupied West Bank during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In a statement, the ministry said the attack on the mosque was “an attempt to desecrate Islamic holy sites during Ramadan''.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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