Palestinian lawmaker from Hamas Sheikh Hamed Al-Betawi deplored the arson attack that was waged at dawn Monday by extremist Jewish settlers on Dul Nourain Mosque in Qasra village south of Nablus city.
Betawi, who heads the association of Palestinian scholars, described the attack as an act of barbarism and savagery against the Islamic holy sites in Palestine, and part of earlier systematic attacks on Mosques.
According to sources, the Jewish settlers torched many mosques before such as the mosques of Laban Asharqiya and Yasuf and stressed that all divine religions prohibit such act of violence against places of worship.
The lawmaker also expressed his belief that such settlers' attacks are encouraged by extremist Jewish clerics and rabbis who incite against Muslims as well as by the protection provided by both the Israeli occupation forces and the Palestinian authority security forces in the context of their security cooperation.
