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Pakistan and seven other Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, condemned Israel for arson attacks on two West Bank mosques attributed to settlers. The joint statement from foreign ministers accused Israel, as the occupying power, of responsibility for the violence, which occurred amid increased settler attacks in the region since the 2023 Gaza conflict.

Israeli settlers set fire to two mosques in West Bank villages, damaging structures and scrawling hostile Hebrew graffiti. The incidents occurred amid increased settler attacks against Palestinian communities since the 2023 Gaza war began.