Key facts
- Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the West Bank village of Jiljiliya.
- The settlers damaged the mosque's ablution room and scrawled graffiti including 'vengeance' and 'hi from the Hilltop Youth'.
- The incident occurred between 2am and 3am on Wednesday.
- Palestinian civil defence and villagers extinguished the fire.
- The UN has warned of record levels of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank village of Jiljiliya, north of Ramallah, on Wednesday morning. The settlers also scrawled hostile slogans on the mosque's outer walls.
Osama Abdullah, head of the village council, told AFP that the settlers set fire to the ablution room and caused damage to the main mosque, writing slogans such as "vengeance" and "hi from the Hilltop Youth" on the exterior walls.