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Israeli settlers on Thursday launched a campaign, calling for the demolition of a mosque in the West Bank, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
According to Wafa, Israeli settlers were seen hanging up inciting posters in various areas of Burin village near Nablus city, demanding the demolition of a main mosque in the village, Xinhua reported.
Ghassan Dighlis, a Palestinian anti-settlement activist in northern West Bank, said that the settlers hung up posters and painted racist slogans.
The village is the scene for near-daily confrontations between Palestinian residents and Jewish settlers living in nearby settlements.
An Israeli court has ordered the demolition of the same mosque, saying it was illegally built. The Palestinians appealed the decision, but the case is still pending.
In May, Israeli settlers torched two mosques in Yasuf and al- Laban villages, also in Nablus, and wrote anti-Palestinian slogans on the walls of a third mosque in Howara.
Palestinian officials have often warned against the eruption of a religious war due to the practices of the Israeli settlers against Muslim mosques in the West Bank.
Israel and the Palestinians resumed their peace negotiations on Sept. 2, but failed to reach a comprise solution regarding extending a freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank. Israel's refusal to renew the partial 10-month moratorium threatens the possibility for moving forward with the peace negotiations, sponsored by the United States.
The West Bank was occupied by Israel during the 1967 War, and now about 500,000 Israeli settlers live among the 2.5 million Palestinians there.
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