Zionist settlers call for demolishing mosque in Burin

Zionist settlers in the Nablus district have distributed pamphlets calling for the demolition of a mosque in Burin village, south of Nablus city.

Ghassan Daghlas, who heads a committee following up the Zionist settlement activity in northern West Bank, said on Thursday that the settlers, believed to be from more than one settlement, were gluing posters and writing provocative slogans calling for razing the mosque.

He explained that the Israeli occupation authority had previously decided to level it but the case was taken to court and still is not decided.

Settlers in Nablus rural areas burnt two mosques in Yasuf and Laban Al-Sharqiya villages this year and inscribed racist remarks on a third in Hawara village.

Meanwhile, a report published by Hebrew daily Haaretz on Thursday indicated that 13% of the Israeli military live in West Bank settlements and most of them live in a settlement south of Nablus city.