Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the chief of the Palestinian National Authority in a statement on September 5 condemned Israel for its illegal act.

Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque by near the northern West Bank city of Nablus that day. The statement said that this clearly showed Israel's rejection of peace.

The Palestinians are determined to obtain recognition from the United Nations later in September of an independent state to be established on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 in response to Israel's insistence to keep construction in the Jewish settlements, it noted, calling upon the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop the grave violence at once.