Suspected extremist Israelis vandalized a number of Palestinian-owned vehicles in occupied East Jerusalem overnight night Sunday, an Israeli police spokesperson reported, with at least one car being painted with the message “Death to Arabs” in Hebrew.
Last month, racist and Islamophobic graffiti was sprayed on 17 vehicles in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shufat, with some of the messages saying “(Prophet) Muhammad is a pig” in Hebrew.
More recently, suspected Israeli extremists set fire to two vehicles and sprayed “price tag” graffiti on a building in the Palestinian town of Ara in northern Israel.
Death to Arabs and Glory to Jews as well as the phrase Price Tag, by Zionist Squatting Terrorist. Set 2 cars on fire pic.twitter.com/TRShIPMrxz
— Abbs Winston (@AbbsWinston) March 5, 2015
In March, Israeli NGO Yesh Din revealed that Israeli authorities served indictments in only 8.2 percent of cases of Israeli settlers committing anti-Palestinian crimes in the occupied West Bank in the past three years.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the international community.
RT "@IlanBenZion: ‘Death to Arabs’ scrawled on Neve Shalom cars http://t.co/WLLv3KD"
— Monsieur Issa (@issaeb) June 8, 2012
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), there were a total of 107 reported settler attacks against Palestinians and their properties in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem in 2016. OCHA has recorded 56 such attacks since the beginning of the year.
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