Hebrew media sources have revealed that the attacks carried out by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages in the West Bank have been escalated recently.
Haaretz newspaper on Wednesday said that settler attacks have become a routine adding that almost every week Palestinian citizens in different village wake up to find that their property has been vandalized with racist slogans written on them.
Haaretz said that the Israeli police sometimes arrest some settlers for being involved in hate crimes against Palestinians but they are released shortly after.
The Hebrew newspaper pointed out that the Palestinian citizens of al-Mughayyir village near Ramallah woke up Monday morning to discover that they had “unwelcome visitors” overnight.
Scores of Israeli settlers punctured the tires of a number of Palestinian vehicles spray-painted racist slogans on the houses’ walls and destroyed about 25 trees.
Haaretz said quoting B’Tselem organization that around 2000 Palestinian-owned trees have been cut down by Israeli settlers in two months.
Groups of Israeli settlers on a regular basis launch attacks on Palestinian property in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories West Bank and East Jerusalem under the name “Price Tag”.
These attacks may escalate to murder attempts vandalism and arson attacks especially on Islamic and Christian sites and cemeteries.
