{"id":266,"date":"2010-05-04T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=266"},"modified":"2010-05-04T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:58:11","slug":"fire-damages-west-bank-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/05\/04\/266\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damages West Bank mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"setting-fire-to-mosque\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/setting-fire-to-mosque.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"205\" \/>Police are investigating a fire which seriously damaged a mosque in the West Bank village of Luban Al Sharqiya and which local residents say was an act of arson carried out by Jewish settlers.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witnesses told Al Jazeera they found the mosque burned at dawn on Tuesday, when they arrived for morning prayers.<br \/>They reportedly heard a group of cars approach the mosque around 3am local time.<br \/>&#8220;The mosque has been completely burned,&#8221; Majed Daraghmeh, a mosque official, told the Reuters news agency.<br \/>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t see the settlers but I am certain that they did it because of their previous attacks on the village.&#8221;<br \/>The Civil Administration, Israel&#8217;s civilian government authority in the occupied West Bank, says it is investigating the fire. Israeli media report that the fire could have been the result of an electrical malfunction.<br \/>Israeli army officials have yet to comment on the incident.<br \/>Luban Al Sharqiya is a small village surrounded by three illegal Jewish settlements: Elieh, Labuneh, and Shilo.<br \/>&#8220;Residents there report settler attacks are widespread,&#8221; Al Jazeera&#8217;s Nour Odeh, reporting from the village, said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increasing attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli security officials acknowledge that settler attacks in the West Bank have increased over the past few months.<br \/>Last month, a mosque in the village of Huwarawas vandalised. Residents found graffiti, including a Star of David, scrawled on the walls.<br \/>Two weeks later, settlers were blamed for uprooting hundreds of olive trees and burning several cars in the same village.<br \/>And in December, settlers burned a mosquein the village of Yasuf.<br \/>The Israeli army said last month that it would establish a task force to investigate these so-called price tag attacks.<br \/>Vandals occasionally spray-paint the words &#8220;price tag&#8221; on buildings and cars, suggesting that the attacks are the &#8220;price&#8221; for any attempt by the Israeli government to curb the growth of illegal settlements.<br \/>Human rights groups say the Israeli government does not take the attacks seriously enough.<br \/>A recent report from Amnesty International- the London-based rights group &#8211; found that &#8220;impunity remains the norm&#8221; for settlers accused of vandalism and physical attacks on Palestinians.<br \/>The fire comes as Israeli and Palestinian officials are preparing to resume indirect negotiations on Wednesday.<br \/>Palestinian leaders are pushing for a complete freeze in new Israeli construction in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem.<br \/>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year approved a temporary halt in West Bank growth &#8212; but it does not apply to East Jerusalem, and many communities in the West Bank have ignored the orderand continued new construction.<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a fire which seriously damaged a mosque in the West Bank village of Luban Al Sharqiya and which local residents say was an act of arson carried out by Jewish settlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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