— Haaretz reports: “Settler teen arrested over West Bank mosque arson”
— “Israel Police on Thursday arrested a settler teen suspected of involvement in the torching of a West Bank mosque three weeks ago.”
— “The teen, whose parents and grandfather were killed in Palestinian terror attacks, was arrested at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank.”
— “The vandalism at the mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf drew harsh rebuke from Israeli leaders, among them politicians and clergy. During the attack, the vandals torched books of the Koran and prayer carpets, and scrawled Nazi slogans in Hebrew across the walls.”
— “Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger visited the mosque following the attack to express his condemnation.”
— “‘I came here to expression my revulsion at this wretched act of burning a place holy to the Muslim people,” Metzger told the residents after he was escorted into the village under the protection of the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian police. “This is how the Holocaust began, the tragedy of the Jewish people of Europe.’ ”
— “A delegation of West Bank settlers, led by renowned peacemaker Rabbi Menachem Froman, brought copies of the Koran to the village to replace those lost in the fire.”
NYT: "On Friday, Palestinians inspected the damage done to a mosque that was set on fire in the West Bank village of Yasuf." (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)