The Israeli army is investigating complaints that troops in the West Bank
vandalized a mosque. Military officials said Tuesday that the commander of an
infantry company had been suspended pending completion of a probe into a claim,
lodged by the Rabbis for Human Rights watchdog group, that his men broke the
windows of a mosque in the Palestinian village of Zif, near Hebron. According to
Rabbis for Human Rights, the soldiers vandalized the mosque, and threatened to
demolish it, in response to stone-throwing attacks by Palestinian youths against
cars from nearby Israeli settlements.
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