Extremist Jewish settlers at dawn Friday smashed windows of three parked Palestinian cars and spray-painted racist graffiti on walls in Turmus Ayya town north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
The settlers came from the nearby illegal settlement of Shilo. A video recording circulated on social media showed three settlers destroying car windows with sticks and metal objects.
Later on the same day the Israeli occupation police claimed they had launched an investigation into the attack.
According to human rights groups incidents of terrorism and violence by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the West Bank.
However Israeli law enforcement authorities exhibit extreme incompetence in addressing such widespread occurrence of settlers’ crimes.
The vast majority of investigation files regarding harm to Palestinians and their property are closed due to deliberate police failure to investigate properly. The deficiencies and flaws in the work of the Israeli police are clearly noticed at every stage of an investigation when the victim is a Palestinian citizen.
