Israeli prosecutors charge six settlers after West Bank mosque attack

Israeli attacks connected Palestinian villages person accrued successful the occupied West Bank, adjacent arsenic settlers charged.

Israeli prosecutors person filed charges against six radical pursuing attacks connected villages and a mosque by Israeli settlers successful the occupied West Bank.

“Six indictments were filed for acts of terrorism, arson, sabotage and convulsive rioting successful the colony of Deir Dibwan retired of a nationalistic motive,” Israeli constabulary said successful a connection connected Friday.

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On June 14, Israeli settlers attacked 2 West Bank villages.

Police said their probe revealed that masked settlers had coordinated to participate Deir Dibwan unneurotic portion carrying flammable substances, teardrop state and a knife, AFP reported.

“Upon entering the village, they carried retired a bid of violent acts, which included mounting occurrence to vegetation, torching vehicles, damaging the section mosque, attacking residents’ homes and throwing stones astatine vehicles and inhabited houses,” according to the constabulary statement.

At the clip of the attack, witnesses told Al Jazeera the settlers poured an incendiary substance connected the model of the mosque and acceptable it alight while worshippers were inside.

More than 500,000 Israelis unrecorded successful the occupied West Bank – excluding occupied East Jerusalem – successful settlements and outposts amerciable nether planetary law.

The fig of settler attacks has risen sharply successful 2026 to astir six per day, according to the United Nations.

Attacks continue

On Friday alone, Palestine’s Wafa quality bureau reported respective settler attacks and raids connected Palestinian homes and villages crossed the West Bank. They included attacks connected homes successful the colony of Al-Maniya, southeast of Bethlehem, connected vehicles successful the northwest of Ramallah and a occurrence started by settlers connected cultivation onshore successful the colony of Burqa, eastbound of Ramallah.

Wafa besides reported that Israeli forces and settlers raided Al-Ras Mosque successful Hebron’s Old City earlier dawn, assaulted those inside, prevented the dawn supplication from being held and closed the mosque to worshippers.

The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs condemned the raid, denounced the raising of Israeli flags connected the mosque arsenic good arsenic preventing worshippers from access.

Also connected Friday, Israeli forces assaulted and detained a Palestinian antheral adjacent Al-Aqsa Mosque compound successful occupied Jerusalem, Wafa said.

Attacks successful the occupied West Bank person continued contempt the charges against the six settlers.

The defendants see 5 minors and an 18-year-old, according to The Times of Israel. It said they were charged successful the Jerusalem District Court for racially-motivated battle that included a drawstring of convulsive offences, rioting, arson nether “terrorist” circumstances and racially-motivated spot damage.

Al Jazeera reported earlier that occidental countries specified arsenic the Australia, Canada, France, Norway, New Zealand and the UK person imposed coordinated sanctions targetting networks progressive successful financing, enabling and carrying retired settler unit against Palestinians successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

However, successful Israel, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that settler groups and their leaders welcomed the measures arsenic a “badge of honour”, suggesting that the sanctions whitethorn bash small to halt colony expansion.

Daniella Weiss, whose movement, Nachala, has held conferences connected the Gaza borderline to sermon plans for colony enlargement determination has “dismissed the European penalties arsenic ‘ridiculous’ and ‘banal’.”