Suspected extremist Israeli settlers have torched a West Bank mosque and sprayed it with Hebrew-language graffiti
Suspected extremist Israeli settlers have torched a West Bank mosque and sprayed it with Hebrew-language graffiti early on Tuesday.
“In the middle of the night ... somebody entered the mosque, broke the window and threw a match causing a fire,” a resident of the West Bank village of Jaba, told Israeli army radio.
The assailants wrote on the walls in Hebrew, “The war has begun” and “Pay the price,” the resident said.
“Neighbors saw the fire, ran to the mosque and put it out.”
Israeli police told AFP that they had yet to carry out a forensic investigation but there were signs pointing to settler activists. "At the moment different directions are being looked into as well as the possibility that it was caused as a result of one of these price tag incidents, that's one of the main directions that we'll be looking into," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
"Price tag" is a euphemism for revenge hate crimes by Israeli extremists.