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The attack marks the latest in a surge of settler violence in the West Bank, with October recording the highest number of incidents since 2006.

Israeli officials describe the violence as extremists’ work, but Palestinians and rights groups contend it’s widespread and perpetrated with impunity from the far-right government.

DEIR ISTIYA, West Bank — A mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank was torched and defaced overnight, and tagged with hateful messages , a day after some Israeli leaders condemned a recent attack by settlers against Palestinians.

One wall and at least three copies of the Quran and some of the carpeting at the mosque in the Palestinian town of

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