A mosque in the West Bank has been attacked in the middle of the night

A burning tire was thrown into the mosque in the village of El Mughriah near Ramallah, and Hebrew graffiti was daubed on the walls. Israeli and Palestinian officials said that the attackers were Jewish settlers, retaliating for the dismantling of unauthorized Jewish settler housing nearby. Villagers said that they awoke for morning prayers to find smoke billowing from their mosque. The slogan "Price tag, Aley Ayin" was scrawled in Hebrew on the wall. Aley Ayin was an unauthorized settler outpost, which the Israeli authorities cleared recently. There has been a pattern of recent attacks, dubbed "price tag" on Palestinian property by radical Jewish settlers, after the authorities acted to curb their illegal expansion.