JERUSALEM: Palestinians in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank held weekly community prayers after clearing insulting graffiti, broken glass, and burn marks from a mosque they say was targeted by Jewish settlers amid a spike in attacks. Villagers in Deir Istiya who cleaned up the mosque said that settlers had smashed windows, sprayed slogans, and tried to torch the building in an assault on Wednesday night. Reuters video of the mosque showed the graffiti as well as shattered glass, charred internal walls and furniture.

Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is at its highest level on record, per the UN.

Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight and scribbled hateful messages.