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Israeli settlers carried out new attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank, local sources said, amid continued criticism from the international community over settler violence.

Palestinian residents say such attacks often occur under the protection of Israeli forces and rarely lead to legal accountability, even when complaints are filed.

In the village of Duma, southeast of Nablus in the northern West Bank, local sources reported that settlers set fire to a mosque.

According to the sources, the settlers also sprayed racist and hostile graffiti targeting Palestinian residents.

Photos circulated by residents of Duma showed that the attackers poured flammable substances on the mosque’s entrance before setting it alight. Part of the entrance area caught fire, but residents who woke up and rushed to the site managed to prevent the flames from spreading throughout the building.

In the southern West Bank, settlers also attacked Palestinian property in the Masafer Yatta area of Hebron governorate.

Local activist Osama Makhmara said a group of armed settlers set fire to a residential structure belonging to Ismail Abu Aram near the hamlet of Khirbet Abu al-Halawa in Masafer Yatta. The attackers also burned a trailer and other personal property.

No injuries were reported, as the family had been forced to leave the home about two weeks earlier due to repeated settler attacks.

In another incident in Khillet al-Hummus, south of Yatta, settlers from the nearby settlement of Susiya — built on Palestinian land — broke into the home of resident Ashraf Nassar.

The settlers vandalised surveillance cameras, damaged several fruit trees and stole solar-powered floodlights before leaving the area. No injuries were reported.