WEST BANK: Jewish settlers set a school mosque on fire, Palestinian officials say

Record ID: 562477

  • Title: WEST BANK: Jewish settlers set a school mosque on fire, Palestinian officials say
  • Date: 4th May 2011
  • Summary: HAWARA, WEST BANK (MAY 2, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DAMAGE TO MOSQUE ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES IN MOSQUE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) NABLUS GOVERNOR, JEBRIL AL BAKRI, SAYING: "It is a part a series of settlers' attacks on the area. We always warned and now we warn again that the settlers want to push the area towards violence again". ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES OUTSIDE MOSQUE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) MANAGER OF SETTLEMENT FILE IN NABLUS MUNICIPALITY, GHASSAN DAGHLAS, SAYING: "It is the third attack after two attacks on mosques, one in Al Yasoof Village and the other in Al Lubad village and now this one in Hawara. For sure it is a new crime against the Palestinian religious holy places in Palestine". VARIOUS OF DAMAGED MOSQUE
  • Embargoed: 19th May 2011 13:00
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  • Location: West bank, West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA2XSTRLVQLE5Z2SIML365K8TE
  • Story Text: Jewish settlers set a school mosque on fire in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday (May 3).
    Video footage from the scene in the small village near the city of Nablus showed broken windows and blackened walls of a school prayer room, which served as a mosque.
    Nablus Governor Jibreen al Bakri blamed the blaze on Jewish settlers.
    "It is a part a series of settlers' attacks on the area. We always warned and now we warn again that the settlers want to push the area towards violence again," al Bakri said.
    Another official, Ghassan Daghlas, said it was "a crime against Palestinian holy places".
    "It is the third attack after two attacks on mosques, one in Al Yasoof Village and the other in Al Lubad village and now this one in Hawara. For sure it is a new crime against the Palestinian religious holy places in Palestine," he said.
    An Israeli police spokesman said the incident was being looked into and Israeli army and border police forces were seen taking statements from residents and surveying the damage.
    The vandalising of several mosques in the same area were blamed last year on settlers who number close to half a million among 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
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