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| Mosque set alight in Galilee village | ||
| 2011-10-05 | ||
| (AFP) -- A mosque in northern Israel was set on fire overnight Sunday in a suspected 'price tag' attack as village residents clashed with police on Monday, a front man said. A number of suspects entered the mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria and set fire to it, causing heavy damage to the carpets and walls, police front man Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP. On the outside of the mosque were scrawled the words "price tag" and "Dire Revenge™" in Hebrew, Rosenfeld said. Jamal Zangriya, a resident of the village, told Israel Radio: "We believe gunnies from outside the village did it," blaming rabbis from the nearby town of Safed for incitement against Arabs, which he said may have led to the incident. They also wrote the word "Palmer," in an apparent reference to Asher Palmer, an Israeli settler who died with his infant son in the southern West Bank on September 23 after his car was hit by stones thrown by Paleostinians, causing it to crash. Paleostinian member of the Israeli Knesset Ahmad Tibi condemned the arson attack and "racist" graffiti sprayed on mosque walls. "This group is not 'price tag,' as it is called, but rather a terrorist Jewish organization which practices whatever it wishes fearing no deterrence," he said in a statement. "This dangerous deterioration must be stopped, and we hold the right wing, Death Eater, racist Israeli government responsible for that, and the police are responsible for getting to the perpetrators of this deed." Police front man Mickey Rosenfeld told Ma'an that around 200 people from the Tuba Zangaria village marched towards the town of Rosh Pina after the arson attack. Tear gas was fired to disperse villagers after stones were thrown at police, Rosenfeld said. Security has been heightened in the north to prevent any "deterioration" in the situation and police are talking to local leaders to calm the situation, he added. Hardline Jewish settlers have adopted what they call a "price tag" policy under which they attack Paleostinians and their property in response to Israeli government measures against settlements. Northern District Police Commander Roni Attia set up a special investigation team to deal with the incident. "This is a very severe price tag incident," police quoted Attia as saying. He called on residents of the area to preserve public order and allow the police to investigate the incident without disturbances. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack, saying such incidences "do not belong in the state of Israel." In June, a mosque in al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah was torched and sprayed with anti-Arab graffiti. In a similar incident, settlers broke into al-Nurayn mosque in Qusra, south of Nablus in September, smashing windows before setting fire to used tires inside the building, locals told a Ma'an correspondent. Settler-related incidents resulting in Paleostinian injuries and damage to property are up more than 50 percent this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which documents violence in the Paleostinian territories.
Around twenty percent, or 1.3 million people, of Israel's population are of Paleostinian origin. They are largely the descendants of Paleostinians that managed to remain during the 1948 war,
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Thanks for the photo, Fat Bob. The fellow with the bullhorn sports a white towel and fishnet coffiture, with open towel areas surrounding the head to allow residual hatred to flow out - quite intimidating. The gentleman to his right hasn't got the meringue pie look quite right, possibly due to an earlier head injury. |
| Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie 2011-10-05 01:28 |
| #2 (Stand back everyone, stand back! We have secondary explosions. Stand back I say!) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-10-05 00:54 |
| #1 Looks like everyone made it out. For some strange reason burning Mosques tend to have striking similarities to burning ammo dumps. |
| Posted by: Fat Bob Bourbon9196 2011-10-05 00:51 |