According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, anti-settlement activist Nazmi Salman said the assault took place early Thursday at the Hajja Hamida Mosque northwest of Salfit, where settlers poured flammable materials at the entrance and set the building ablaze.

Local residents rushed to extinguish the flames before the entire mosque was consumed.

Settlers also vandalized the mosque’s walls with racist slogans insulting Arabs and Muslims.

In the nearby village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, Israeli forces shot and injured a 25-year-old Palestinian man as settlers attacked residents plowing their land in the Wadi Abu Ayyash area.

Salameh Rashaida, Deputy Head of the Kisan Village Council, told WAFA that the settlers were directly backed by regime troops, who opened fire when Palestinians tried to defend themselves.

The victim was hit in the leg and taken to hospital for treatment.

Separately, another Palestinian youth suffered a fractured skull after a brutal assault by settlers in Arab al-Rashaida, northwest of Ariha, on Wednesday evening, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

A Palestinian woman was also injured after settlers hurled stones at passing vehicles in al-Rashayida, east of Bethlehem.

The head of the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC), Mu’ayyad Sha’ban, said on November 5 that Israeli regime forces carried out 1,584 attacks across the West Bank last month, including violent assaults, home demolitions, and the destruction of Palestinian olive groves.

He said Ramallah saw 542 incidents, Nablus 412, and al-Khalil 401.

The CRRC’s report, Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Measures, also recorded 766 settler-led attacks during the same period.

In July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s decades-long occupation of historical Palestine is illegal and called for the complete dismantling of settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds.

While the ruling is non-binding, it carries substantial political weight — the first time the ICJ has formally condemned the Israeli regime’s 57-year occupation as unlawful.