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Unknown vandals set Torah books on fire in a West Bank synagogue on Saturday evening. The police treating the incident as a suspected hate crime.

The incident occurred in a synagogue built near the settlement of Karmei Zur in memory of the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas operatives in July 2014.

The synagogue was empty when the incident took place. An initial probe indicated that the perpetrators of the crime organized the books in a pile inside the synagogue and set them on fire before fleeing the scene.

The police said footsteps found at the scene led to the Palestinian village of Halhul.