Israeli settlers ‘set fire’ to West Bank mosque

Israeli settlers started a blaze in a mosque near the West Bank town of Ramallah overnight, setting the first floor on fire, Palestinian security officials said Wednesday, according to Agence France-Presse.

"The settlers set fire to the whole of the first floor of the mosque" in the village of Al-Mughayir, near the Shilo Jewish settlement, the officials said.
Hardline Jewish settlers frequently accompany their revenge attacks with graffiti bearing the legend “price tag” but that was not the case in the latest arson attack, the officials added.
Another mosque in the same village was set ablaze in a similar attack in 2012.

Israeli synagogue

In a separate incident, unknown assailants threw a petrol bomb overnight at an ancient synagogue in Shfaram, a predominantly Muslim and Christian Arab town in northern Israel, police said.
There was small-scale damage and police were investigating.
On Tuesday, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian protester during clashes in the southern West Bank.
Since the current round of violence began exactly five months ago with the kidnapping and subsequent murder of three Israeli teenagers by militants, at least 17 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, according to an AFP count.
 [english.alarabiya.net With AFP]
12/11/14
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