Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on its walls shortly after midnight on Wednesday in Mikhmas, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, according to residents and the Israeli military. The fire gutted the mosque's interior, and a car was also torched; the military said no suspects had been identified and an investigation was opened. Villagers say they have formed night patrols fearing attacks on homes, while a Palestinian National Council official called the arson a dangerous escalation in settler violence, a long-running source of tension in the territory.