<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy Quran, Near Bethlehem &#8211; International Middle East Media&nbsp;Center]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span class="article-details"><span class="article-detail">Monday October 04, 2010 08:16</span><span class="article-detail"><img class="icon" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.imemc.org/graphics/person.gif" alt="author" /> by Saed Bannoura &#8211; IMEMC &amp; Agencies</span></span> <a href="http://www.imemc.org/report_posts?subject=Report%20post:%20Story%2059537%20with%20title:%20Settlers%20Torch%20Mosque,%20Copies%20of%20the%20Holy%20Quran,%20Near%20Bethlehem&amp;message=Report%20post:%20Story%2059537%20with%20title:%20Settlers%20Torch%20Mosque,%20Copies%20of%20the%20Holy%20Quran,%20Near%20Bethlehem%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.imemc.org%2Findex.php%3Fobj_id%3D53%26story_id%3D59537%26%0A%0AEnter+your+reason+here+-+please+do+not+remove+the+above+link+as+it+will+allow+an+editor+to+easily+remove+the+offending+content"><img class="icon" title="Report post" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.imemc.org/graphics/report.gif" alt="Report post" /></a></p>
<blockquote class="article-intro"><p>A group of fundamentalist Israeli  settlers broke, on Sunday at night, into a mosque in Beit Fajjar, near  Bethlehem, and set it ablaze.</p></blockquote>
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<p class="article">The settlers burnt twelve copies of the Holy Quran before setting the mosque’s carpets and grounds ablaze.</p>
<p>Local residents noticed the assailants and clashed with them before the  Israeli army arrived at the scene and evacuated the setters; no arrests  were reported.</p>
<p>The mosque was badly burnt and the settlers also wrote graffiti on its inner walls.<br />
The incident is the latest in a series of attacks carried out by the settlers against mosques in the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>Earlier in May this year, a group of fundamentalist settlers torched the  main mosque of the Al Lubban Al Sharqiyya village, south of the  northern West Bank city of Nablus.</p>
<p>Earlier in January, the Israeli police detained sixteen yeshiva students  and three adult settlers from the illegal West Bank settlement of  Yitzhar on suspicion of involvement in torching a mosque in Yasuf  Palestinian village, near the central West Bank city of Salfit; the  mosque was burnt in December 2009.</p>
<p>On Thursday, September 30, extremists settlers called for the demolition  of a mosque in the West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus.</p>
<p>They wrote slogans on the walls of the mosque demanding the Israeli army to level it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/59537">Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy Quran, Near Bethlehem &#8211; International Middle East Media Center</a>.</p>
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