Arsonists damage the Mosque in the West Bank

JERUSALEM — Arsonists suspected of being radical Israeli settlers damaged part of a Palestinian mosque early on Monday in a village near the West Bank city of Hebron, setting fire to rugs and copies of the Koran and scrawling the word “revenge” in Hebrew on a wall, police officials and witnesses said.
Palestinian residents of the village, Al Fajjar, said they saw what they described as an Israeli car speeding away before dawn.
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, said that whoever set the fire was “a terrorist” and that no means would be spared to catch the culprits.
The attack came as American officials were trying to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that have run aground over Israel’s plans to begin building settlements in the West Bank after a 10-month construction freeze.
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