RAMALLAH, Oct. 5 (JMCC) - Two rabbis living in
settlements near the occupied
West Bank city of
Bethlehem delivered a box of new Qu'rans to the people of
Beit Fajjar, whose mosque was torched by militant settlers early Monday morning.
The two rabbis, Menahem Frohman and Aharon Lichtenstein, who both live in Jewish settlements near Bethlehem, paid a solidarity visit to the mosque in Beit Fajjar and donated a dozen copies of the Muslim holy book.
The visit came a day after unidentified vandals driving a car with Israeli licence plates drove into Beit Fajjar and sprayed Hebrew graffiti all over the mosque before setting it alight in a pre-dawn attack blamed by witnesses on Jewish settlers.
Several hundred Palestinians cheered as the two rabbis arrived at the mosque in bulletproof Land Rovers accompanied by a small delegation of Israeli soldiers.
They were met by the mosque's imam and Bethlehem governor Abdul Fatah Hamayel who gave them a tour of the damaged mosque.
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