Worshippers arriving for Fajr prayers at the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in the village of Tell, near Nablus, found the entrance engulfed in smoke. Israeli settlers had torched it before dawn — burning the gate, blackening the ornate doorway, and spray-painting “revenge” and “Price Tag” on the outer walls. “I was shocked when I opened the door,” one resident told the Associated Press.

As Al Jazeera reported, the arson took place during the first week of Ramadan, marking the latest in a documented pattern of settler attacks on Palestinian religious sites. “Price Tag” is the name used by hardline settler networks for retaliatory violence against Palestinians — attacks that, according to Israeli military data cited by the Associated Press, increased 27 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year, with serious attacks including arson and shootings reaching 128 incidents — up from 54 in 2023.

The mosque burning was not an isolated incident. Across the West Bank on the same day, Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread raids — arresting children, demolishing a Palestinian home, injuring at least one Palestinian, and detaining six others. Anadolu News Agency also reported a separate incident in which an illegal settler broke into a Palestinian home accompanied by a donkey, with footage circulating widely online.

In response to the escalating situation, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation convened an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, requested by Palestine to coordinate positions on Israeli military operations, settler violence, and attacks on religious sites.

There have been no arrests in connection with the mosque burning. There rarely are. Prosecutions of Jewish extremists for settler violence are rare; convictions are rarer still. The Israeli government — described by human rights organizations as the most hardline in the country’s history — has not condemned the attack.