Twenty-eight cars were vandalized earlier this week in the Palestinian West Bank village of Mazra’a al-Qibliya near Ramallah Haaretz has reported.
Quoting Palestinian reports Haaretz said tires of dozens of Palestinian vehicles were slashed and several cars were spray-painted with Stars of David and racist graffiti in Hebrew.
Head of the village Sa’id Shartah said that on Sunday night or Monday morning the locals found cars parked in the area with all their tires slashed and others spray-painted with Hebrew-speaking graffiti.
Palestinians said they had complained to the Israel Police but that police forces refrained from entering from the village under the pretext that rocks were hurled at them.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Settlers’ violence includes property and mosque arsons stone-throwing uprooting of crops and olive trees attacks on vulnerable homes among others.
Between 500000 and 600000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories in violation of international law.
All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or forcibly transfer civilian population in territory it occupies.
