Saudi Arabia, other Muslim countries condemn escalating settler violence against Palestinians in occupied West Bank
RIYADH: The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and other Muslim and Arab countries condemned continued and escalating settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
The foreign ministers of the Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Turkiye, Indonesia, and Pakistan condemned recent attacks on the Grand Mosque in the village of Jiljiliya and Al-Farouq Mosque in the village of Mazari Al-Nubani, north of Ramallah.
Israeli settlers set fire to the mosques in the West Bank villages on Wednesday and the Grand Mosque in Jiljiliya had graffiti written on the walls in Hebrew.
The incident came during a period of increased attacks against Palestinian communities by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war in 2023.
