MGHAYR, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian man looks out of a damaged mosque after it was set ablaze, in the West Bank village of Mghayr...
A Palestinian man looks out of a damaged mosque after it was set ablaze, in the West Bank village of Mghayr near Ramallah November 12, 2014. The Palestinian mosque and an Israeli synagogue were damaged in separate arson attacks, police and local residents said on Wednesday, causing no casualties but stoking tensions that have flared over a contested Jerusalem shrine. Youths entered Mghayr village in the occupied West Bank and set a fire which consumed the ground floor of the mosque before residents put it out, Mayor Faraj Na'asan told Reuters. The Israeli police said it had sent a forensic team and a special "nationalist-crime unit" -- set up last year to counter "price tag" incidents -- to Mghayr, but that angry villagers had prevented them from entering the area. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)