I hate my tax dollars subsidize these maniacs.
Officials in Burka, east of Ramallah, said that carpets and chairs were burnt in the local mosque and Hebrew graffiti saying “war” was scrawled on the wall.
On Tuesday, a fire was started in a 12th Century mosque in Jerusalem.
The incidents are being blamed on Jewish settlers angry at what they see as Israeli government attempts to restrict settlement building.
“This is a cowardly, despicable act by settlers,” the head of Burka council, Abdelqadr Sumrean, told the BBC. “They want us to leave our land but we will never do that.”
No-one saw the perpetrators of the attack in Burqa, which took place in the middle of the night. However, it is located within a kilometre of Migron, a settlement outpost which is due to be demolished early next year under an order from Israel’s Supreme Court.
‘Price tag’
The village has previously seen so-called “price tag” violence. This is a policy of attacks on Palestinians or their property carried out by Jewish extremists in repose to any action taken by the Israeli government or security forces against settlement expansion.
There has been a rise in such attacks across the West Bank and in Israel in recent weeks.
The words “price tag” were sprayed on the walls of the disused, Nebi Akasha, mosque in central Jerusalem after attempts were made to set it alight early on Tuesday. 
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