{"id":3882,"date":"2014-11-13T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2014-11-13T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:37:52","slug":"israeli-settlers-blamed-for-burning-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/11\/13\/3882\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli settlers blamed for burning mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/masjid-in-palestine.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers have torched a mosque in the occupied West Bank, amid growing religious tensions and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The attack just before dawn on Wednesday, near the Jewish settlement of Shilo, came after separate knife attacks blamed on Palestinians killed a settler in the southern West Bank and an Israeli soldier in Tel Aviv on Monday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All Jewish settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory are illegal under international law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The settlers set fire to the whole of the first floor of the mosque&#8221; in Mughayer village near the West Bank city of Ramallah, a security official said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A police investigation has been opened into the incident, officials said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an interview with Al Jazeera, Faraj al-Naasan, mayor of Mughayer, also blamed Jewish settlers of the attack. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al Jazeera&#8217;s Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from inside the destroyed mosque, described seeing religious books turned into ashes and windows being blown out.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;There an awful lot of anger in the community,&#8221; he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Molotov cocktail was thrown overnight at an ancient synagogue in the Arab town of Shfaram in Israel, causing minor damage, Israeli police said on Wednesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The structure is not currently used for worship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8216;Disturbances in the area&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Micky Rosenfeld, the Israeli police spokesman, said police were deployed later on Wednesday near the entrance to Mughayir, but &#8220;disturbances in the area&#8221; were preventing them from opening an investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rosenfeld did not elaborate on the extent of the disturbances but attacks such as the one in Mughayir frequently ignite violent protests.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The attack on the mosque comes as Israeli-Palestinian tensions remain high, mostly on account of competing claims to a holy site in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The unrest has been prompted by Muslim fears of Jewish encroachment at the sacred site where al-Aqsa Mosque stands, a hilltop plateau known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This in turn has caused strife in a region already on edge following the collapse of US-led peace talks, Israel&#8217;s war last summer with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and new Israeli settlement construction plans in the occupied East Jerusalem.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The tensions at the shrines have frequently boiled over into violent demonstrations, though Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, has insisted that Israel has no plans to change the status quo at the Jerusalem holy sites.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Netanyahu traded accusations on Tuesday over the tensions, with Abbas saying that frequent visits to the site by Jewish worshippers are escalating clashes and accused Israel of leading the region towards a &#8220;religious war&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Netanyahu said Abbas was making matters worse and inflaming tempers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers have torched a mosque in the occupied West Bank, amid growing religious tensions and 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