A number of apparent hate crime attacks have targeted Palestinians and their property over the weekend in the northern West Bank, the B’Tselem rights group reports.
Hours after the death of Hava Roizen last Thursday night in what was originally suspected to have been a terror ramming, but is now believed to have been a hit-and-run accident, Israelis hurled stones at several Palestinian vehicles near the settlement of Yitzhar and torched a tractor in the nearby village of Urif, B’Tselem says.
On Friday — a day after Roizen’s death — Palestinians in the northern West Bank villages of Arraba and Luban a-Sharqiya woke up to find olive trees uprooted or cut down, with some 300 trees damaged in the first village and 70 in the second.
On Saturday, a similar crime was reported in Ras Karkar near Ramallah, where 74 olive trees were cut down, a water well was damaged and Hebrew hate slogans were found graffitied at the scene, B’Tselem says.
Local residents of the West Bank village of Ras Karkar examine olive trees damaged by suspected Israeli extremists, August 19, 2018. (Iyad Haddad/B’Tselem)“Price tag” hate graffiti scrawled near the West Bank village of Ras Karkar, August 19, 2018. (Iyad Haddad/B’Tselem)
Police have yet to open an investigation into the incidents.
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