Cops, IDF probing alleged arson and vandalism by settlers in West Bank Christian town

Police and the IDF are investigating an arson attack and vandalism allegedly perpetrated by settlers early this morning in the West Bank Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh,  the Kan public broadcaster reports

Photos published by Palestinian media show a car which has its back charred, along with Hebrew graffiti on a wall reading “revenge” and “Am Yisrael Chai” (the nation of Israel lives).

Kan publishes additional security camera footage, timestamped to about 5 a.m. this morning, showing three masked individuals arriving at, and then fleeing from, the site of the attack.

המשטרה פתחה בחקירת האירוע ותחקור אותו בליווי הצבא. שלושה רעולי פנים תועדו מגיעים למקום במהלך הלילה ובורחים | תיעוד בלעדי @HGoldich pic.twitter.com/c7Utvk0n5w

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Later Wednesday, settlers also entered the nearby village of Burqa and assaulted a man, according to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency.

Footage published by Palestinian media showed six settlers, one of them armed with an IDF standard-issue assault rifle, walking with livestock on a road in the village.

متابعة صحفية| مستـ ـوطنون يهـ.ـاجمون قرية برقا شرق رام الله، ويحــتجزون أحد المزارعين وأغنامه. pic.twitter.com/4rvkFpOBXD

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Meanwhile, a woman and her daughter were hospitalized after being assaulted by settlers this afternoon near Nablus in the northern West Bank, WAFA says.

Separately, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reports a 28-year-old man was taken to a hospital after being shot in the leg by the IDF while he was driving a motorcycle in Jenin, also in the northern West Bank.

The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment.