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A Palestinian man inspects the damage inside a mosque reportedly burnt by Israeli settlers overnight, on June 17 in the Israeli occupied West Bank village of Jiljlia, just north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The expansion of West Bank settlements has been a policy under successive Israeli governments but has accelerated under the current prime minister's coalition, which is backed by the far-right. More than 500,000 Israelis now live in the West Bank, excluding east Jerusalem, in settlements that are illegal under international law, among some 3 million Palestinians. (AFP/YEFIMOVICH )
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font size="2">Indonesia joined a coalition of Muslim countries on Friday in condemning recent Israeli attacks on mosques in the occupied West Bank, warning that escalating violence in the Palestinian enclave risks undermining already fragile efforts to stabilize the Middle East.
In a joint statement signed by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, the countries specifically denounced recent attacks on the Grand Mosque in Jiljilya village and the Al-Farouq Mosque in Mazar’a al-Nubani, denouncing them as blatant violation of the sanctity of places of worship and international law.
“The Ministers affirm their absolute rejection of these deplorable attacks by Israeli settlers, as well as the continued illegal Israeli measures in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which fuel instability, violence and extremism and undermine international efforts to achieve peace,” the statement said.
The ministers also held Israel as the occupying power, responsible for the attacks and called on the international community to ensure accountability for settler violence.
The condemnation followed attacks on two mosques north of Ramallah on Wednesday, when Israeli settlers reportedly set parts of the holy sites ablaze and spray-painted racist slogans on their walls.
According to multiple reports, settlers entered Jiljilya at dawn and set fire to the village’s Grand Mosque, damaging sections of the building, including the women’s prayer hall.
Palestinian state-run news agency WAFA detailed that residents initially confronted the assailants before Israeli forces entered the town, firing tear gas and stun grenades that injured several people.
