“Israeli” Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of Holy Quran

Ma'an news agency reported that a group of "Israeli" extremists stormed a mosque in the town of Beit Fajjar overnight, burned 12 copies of the Holy Quran and set the carpets and grounds of the mosque on fire.

Palestinian residents noticed the assailants and clashed with them before the "Israeli" army arrived at the scene and evacuated the setters.

The witnesses blamed the attack on a group of "Israeli" settlers from the nearby Kfar Etsyon settlement.

The settlers also desecrated the holy site by spraying graffiti and hate messages on the walls inside the mosque in Hebrew.

Earlier in May this year, a group of "Israeli" settlers torched the main mosque of the Al Lubban Al Sharqiyya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.