Jewish settlers burn down mosques in the West Bank. BBC News reported, the Jewish extremists burned the walls of the mosque, also burned Al-Quran which is in the mosque.
Israeli police are also investigating the arson case against a mosque in Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem.
The mayor of the residential area condemned the attack and said that those who carried out these heinous acts must be extremists.
The attack came amid Palestinian-Israeli peace talks over the issue of building Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
Israel has occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 1967. The Zionist government has built nearly 500.000 homes for Jews in more than 100 settlements. About 2,5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank.
The settlement was declared illegal under international law.
Beit Fajjar resident said a group of Jewish settlers came to the mosque at night. They entered the mosque and burned carpets and mushaf Alquran.
Reports say they wrote the words "revenge" on the walls of the mosque in Hebrew.
An Israeli military spokesman said it was taking the burning of the mosque seriously.
"We are doing our best to prosecute those who break the law," army spokesman Avital Leibowitz told reporters in Tel Aviv.
Shaul Goldstein, mayor of Gush Etzion, a local settlement, told BBC, he cursed the attack.
The attack on the mosque is not the first time this has happened. However, Israeli police investigations have so far yielded no results.
In April, a mosque was also vandalized with Hebrew graffiti, cars were set on fire and olive trees uprooted in the village of Hawara, near the Yitzhar settlement.
In May, a mosque in the Palestinian village of Lubban al-Sharqiya, near Nablus, was also burnt down by Jewish extremists. They also destroyed the Quran's manuscripts. No charges have been filed against anyone in either case.
Mohammad Hussein, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, came to inspect the damage and spoke with local residents. "The settler's message is: terrorize the Palestinian people," he told the news agency Reuters.
"Crimes like that do not terrorize the Palestinian people. On the contrary, this attack will only embolden the Palestinian people and increase our determination to achieve all our rights, ”said Hussein.
Palestinian leaders have said they will not continue peace talks with Israel unless there is a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Direct talks between Israel and Palestine resumed this month after being stalled for nearly two years. (Mel / abna / ddhongkong.org). *
