Vandals Set Fire to Mosque in East Jerusalem

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Palestinians visit vandalized mosque in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, in east Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Israeli police said Friday they are investigating after a "room was ignited" in a mosque on the outskirts of Jerusalem and Hebrew graffiti was found on an outside wall. Hebrew reads: "Destroy for the jews? Kumi Uri destroys for the enemy'", in a reference to recently demolished settler outpost Kumi Uri in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police said Friday they are investigating after a “room was ignited” in a mosque on the outskirts of Jerusalem and Hebrew graffiti was found on an outside wall.

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The graffiti was hard to make out but appears to have been left by ultranationalist Israelis. One part read, “Demolishing (for) Jews? Demolishing enemies!” an apparent reference to the dismantling of settler outposts in the West Bank.

The mosque is in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, in annexed east Jerusalem. Israel captured east Jerusalem along with the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. The Palestinians want both areas as part of their future state.

Hard-line Israeli nationalists have been implicated in past attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Palestinians visit torched mosque in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, in east Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Israeli police said Friday they are investigating after a “room was ignited” in a mosque on the outskirts of Jerusalem and Hebrew graffiti was found on an outside wall. .(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)


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Absence of reason
Absence of reason
4 years ago

Tragedy is greater than what is reported…..That this news outlet casts Jews as vandals and the enemy who everyday in their houses of non worship incite to end Jews…….Sad day for vos….Try living in Yehuda and Shomron before you pass judgement

eli
eli
4 years ago

arab balestianians cant even do a normal magen david
same grafiti as in duma…

but the leftist gov will ‘find’ a jewish helpless boy and torture his guts out

yerachem hasham

MTL
MTL
4 years ago

Funny. If they want us to think it was Jews, they should at least learn how to spell properly.

jihad
jihad
4 years ago

oh arabs dont like it.just they dont like it.sorry to hear that .itabach yehud,is something arabs say.never heard itabach arabi allah akbar

PaulinSaudi
PaulinSaudi
4 years ago

In cases like this, I always suspect the congregants themselves first.