'He wanted to burn me alive': 92-year-old recounts West Bank settler attack

Author: Mohammad MansourPublished on: June 17, 2026Country: Palestine
World / InternationalCrime & Law
'He wanted to burn me alive': 92-year-old recounts West Bank settler attack

Yasser Saqer Rashid, a 92-year-old Palestinian American, recounts that an Israeli settler tried to burn down the al-Marah mosque in Deir Dibwan, West Bank, while he was reading the Quran. The settler poured an incendiary substance on the window and pointed a petrol bomb at Rashid's face. Settlers also torched six vehicles and targeted another mosque in Burqa. Settler attacks have escalated since Israel's war on Gaza.

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