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8 Muslim-majority countries blame Israel for arson attacks on West Bank mosques
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEight Muslim-majority countries, including regional heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Turkey, say they hold Israel responsible for recent arson attacks on two West Bank mosques, which Palestinian officials said were torched by settlers.
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey lambast “the continued and escalating settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,” pointing to the mosques that were set on fire a day earlier.
“The Ministers hold Israel — as the occupying power — responsible for these attacks,” they say in the joint statement.
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