In the early hours of Thursday, Israeli settlers set fire to the Muhammad Fayyad Mosque located in the village of Duma, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Alongside the arson, the mosque walls were daubed with racist and inciting graffiti. This is the latest in a series of violent acts by settlers against Palestinian communities and their places of worship. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the incident, labeling it a terrorist act and holding the Israeli government responsible for fostering and supporting such attacks. The ministry accused Israeli authorities of promoting extremist policies that encourage settler... [Continue Reading]
The European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom have issued urgent demands for Israel to curb escalating violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. This surge in violence has been reported since the onset of Israel’s military conflict with Iran. According to the United Nations, there have been six confirmed Palestinian fatalities resulting from attacks perpetrated by settlers across various locations in the West Bank over the past 11 days. The United Kingdom expressed its deep concern over these incidents, describing the killings as appalling. The EU reiterated that the scale of settler violence is intolerable... [Continue Reading]