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Hamas condemns settler burning of Salfit Mosque as ‘heinous crime’

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A view of the mosque which Israelis have set fire to, and wrote racist slogans on its walls in Salfit, West Bank on November 13, 2025. [Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency]

The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas has condemned the burning of a mosque in the Salfit governorate by Israeli settlers and said the arson attack “once again exposes the depth of Israeli racism and sadism toward the Palestinian people and their Islamic and Christian holy sites.”

In a statement published on its Telegram channel on Thursday, the movement condemned the arson attack on the Hajja Hamida Mosque, located between Kafr Haris and Deir Istiya, calling it a “heinous crime” and “a blatant assault on the feelings of Muslims and their freedom of worship.”

Hamas added that the escalating violence by settlers “is carried out with the full backing of the fascist occupation government,” aimed at imposing new realities on the ground and altering the historical and demographic character of the occupied territories.

The group called for urgent international action to restrain Israel, saying the pattern of attacks “violates all international laws, norms, and divine legislation.”

Earlier on Thursday, settlers stormed Deir Istiya at dawn, set fire to parts of the mosque, and spray-painted racist Hebrew slogans on its walls, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency. Residents succeeded in extinguishing the fire, though parts of the mosque sustained damage.

The incident is the latest in a series of assaults on Islamic holy sites this year. Palestinian rights groups have documented dozens of attacks involving mosque arson, vandalism, Quran desecration, and graffiti calling for the killing or expulsion of Palestinians.

According to the Palestinian Authority’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, settlers have carried out 7,154 attacks across the West Bank during the two years of the Gaza war, causing 33 Palestinian deaths and the displacement of 33 communities. Joint attacks by the Israeli army and settlers have killed at least 1,070 Palestinians, injured about 10,700, and led to the arrest of more than 20,500 others.

READ: UN chief condemns Israeli settlers attack on mosque in West Bank

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Hamas condemns Israeli bill allowing closure of foreign media without court approval

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Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. [Noam Moskowitz – Knesset – Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]

The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) initial approval of a bill granting the government the power to shut down foreign media outlets without prior judicial review, calling it an effort to conceal Israel’s crimes and suppress press freedom.

In a statement on Tuesday, Izzat al-Rishq, head of Hamas’s media office, said the Knesset’s vote on the bill represents “a direct threat to press freedom and a reinforcement of the policy of silencing dissenting voices.”

He accused Israel of seeking to “prevent the world from learning the truth about the occupation’s crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people,” adding that much of the content deemed harmful to state security “actually exposes crimes of killing, displacement, settlement expansion, Judaisation, and home demolitions.”

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the proposed measure would make permanent what is informally known as the “Al Jazeera Law”—a temporary provision passed in April 2024 allowing the government to close foreign media organisations operating in Israel for national security reasons. That law required judicial approval and was originally used to suspend the operations of the Qatari network Al Jazeera.

Under the new bill, the prime minister and communications minister could order the closure of foreign outlets without judicial oversight, significantly expanding executive powers over the press.

Al-Rishq urged international governments, human rights groups, and press unions to act “to repeal this legislation,” which he described as evidence of Israel’s “intention to escalate its crimes and hide the truth from the world.”

He also called on international journalists and media organizations to demand access to the occupied Palestinian territories to report “objectively and professionally on the reality of the situation.”

READ: Israeli soldiers describe killings of civilians, aid seekers in Gaza “at wish of army officers”

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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
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