Overview
- Palestinian authorities reported that masked settlers set fire to the Hajjah Hamidah mosque between Deir Istiya and Kafr Haris, scrawling racist graffiti as neighbors contained the blaze with no injuries reported.
- The IDF said troops inspected the mosque attack and handed the case to police, noting no suspects were identified at the scene.
- Two days earlier, dozens of settlers carried out large arson attacks in Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, burning vehicles and a dairy factory, injuring four Palestinians, and later clashing with soldiers and damaging a military vehicle.
- Israeli police said four Israelis were arrested over the Beit Lid incident and that three were released, as President Isaac Herzog and senior commanders Avi Bluth and Eyal Zamir condemned the settler violence.
- The UN recorded a monthly high of more than 260 settler attacks in October and issued warnings alongside rights groups, while Israel’s parliament advanced a first reading of a death‑penalty bill for terrorism convictions that Amnesty urged lawmakers to reject.