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Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The mosque was outside the city of Nablus in the central West Bank.
Israeli settlers set it on fire and scrawled graffiti on a remaining wall in Hebrew that read, quote, We are not afraid and keep condemning, after an Israeli military commander issued a rare call for a crackdown on the violence earlier this week.
It's the latest in what the U.N.
says is an average of eight settler attacks a day in the West Bank, an all-time high that has coincided with the Palestinian olive harvest.
The attacks have provoked expressions of concern from top Israeli officials, military leaders, and members of the Trump administration, including U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Still, most such attacks go unpunished by Israel.
Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The mosque was outside the city of Nablus in the central West Bank.
Israeli settlers set it on fire and scrawled graffiti on a remaining wall in Hebrew that read, quote, We are not afraid and keep condemning, after an Israeli military commander issued a rare call for a crackdown on the violence earlier this week.
It's the latest in what the U.N.
says is an average of eight settler attacks a day in the West Bank, an all-time high that has coincided with the Palestinian olive harvest.
The attacks have provoked expressions of concern from top Israeli officials, military leaders, and members of the Trump administration, including U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Still, most such attacks go unpunished by Israel.
Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The Palestinians returned to Gaza were part of thousands seized by Israeli forces and imprisoned without charges during the war.
In the city of Han Yunis, loved ones cheered at their release.
Islam Ahmed, a journalist from northern Gaza who was detained by the Israeli military late last year, spoke with NPR's Anas Baba.