Jewish home in Jerusalem firebombed, no injuries reported

An apartment in a Jerusalem neighborhood was firebombed Saturday evening, causing some damage to part of the home.

An initial investigation found that a Molotov cocktail was hurled into the balcony of an apartment in the Jewish East Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv, setting it on fire.

There were no initial reports of injuries.

Police suspect the attack was nationalistically motivated and were searching the area for the perpetrators.

A resident of the same apartment bloc, Marcel Kurnitzer, told the Ynet news site that the building had been stoned before, but that it had never been targeted by petrol bombs. “It was quite a shock,” he said.

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The attack came on the heels of another firebombing incident Thursday, in which an 11-year-old girl was seriously injured when a Molotov cocktail was hurled into the car she was riding in near the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Shomron. Her father suffered light injuries.

The girl, Ayala Shapira, who suffered third-degree burns over much of her body and face in the attack, was in serious but stable condition Saturday night after successfully undergoing the first of a series of operations, said doctors at Sheba Medical Center, where she is being treated in the intensive care unit.

Two Palestinian teens were said to have confessed to Thursday’s attack and were in IDF custody.