AL-BIREH,
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 (WAFA) –Israeli settlers today vandalized several
Palestinian vehicles in the West Bank city of al-Bireh,
according to local sources.
They
told WAFA that a group of settlers punctured the tires of three vehicles and
spray-painted hate graffiti on them after sneaking their way into the
industrial zone in the city, close to Ramallah.
The
vehicles were daubed with the Hebrew phrase “price tag” — a slogan used by an
underground anti-Palestinian Israeli group that routinely attacks Palestinians
in the occupied territories and inside Israel.
Following
the settler act of vandalism, Israeli forces stormed and cordoned off the area
as soldiers occupied the rooftops of several houses.
The
Israeli government still refuses to label it as a terrorist organization and
considers it only as group of vandals.
Settler
violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank
and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settler
violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of
crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There
are over 700,00 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West
Bank and East Jerusalem.
K.F.
