![Palestinian residents inspect damage at a mosque in the village of Jiljilya after Israeli settlers set fire to the building, damaging the women's prayer section and writing Hebrew graffiti on its walls in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine on June 17, 2026. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AA-20260617-41696197-41696190-MOSQUE_DAMAGED_IN_ARSON_ATTACK_IN_WEST_BANK_VILLAGE-1-1.jpg)
Israeli occupiers on Wednesday set fire to parts of two mosques in the villages of Jiljilya and Mazra’a al-Nubani, north of the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, and sprayed Hebrew slogans on their walls, while Israeli forces demolished an inhabited Palestinian home east of Yatta, Anadolu Agency reports. A group of occupiers stormed Jiljilya at dawn and set fire to the village mosque, burning the women’s prayer hall and damaging the mosque’s exterior walls, local sources told Anadolu Agency. The village has recently witnessed an escalation in occupier attacks, the sources said. Last month, occupiers attacked the village and stole a flock of sheep. In a separate incident, occupiers attacked Mazra’a al-Nubani and set fire to a mosque […]