JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they've dispersed a crowd that was protesting after someone set fire at a mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel.
Graffiti spray-painted on the mosque's walls suggested Jewish radicals were involved in the fire. A police spokesman says a carpet was burned inside the mosque and interior walls were damaged. Israeli news reports say copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, also were burned.
Police say about 200 people marched to a nearby intersection planning to block the road in protest. Some set tires on fire and threw stones at police officers, who dispersed the crowd with tear gas. No one was injured.
The spokesman says police are working with village leaders to defuse tensions.
Graffiti spray-painted on the mosque's walls suggested Jewish radicals were involved in the fire. A police spokesman says a carpet was burned inside the mosque and interior walls were damaged. Israeli news reports say copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, also were burned.
The spokesman says police are working with village leaders to defuse tensions.
