RAMALLAH,
August 13, 2015 (WAFA) – A Bedouin tent was early Thursday torched and
anti-Arab racist slogans were sprayed in a new arson attack perpetrated by
suspect Israeli Jewish extremists in the Kafr Malik area of Ein Samiya to the
northeast of Ramallah.
Local media reported
that a group of Israeli settlers broke
into Ein Samiya and threw flammable material on a Bedouin tent, which houses a
family from Arab al-Ka‘abnah tribe before fleeing the scene.
The family was able to put the fire out without any injuries.
Rabbis for
Human Rights (RHR) field
worker Zakaria Sadah reported that fires caused substantial damages to the tent, burning everything down.
Sadah added that settlers sprayed “price tag” and other
racist slogans in the scene, calling for “burning of all Arabs” and expelling
them out of their lands.
RHR reported there were only animal fodder inside the tent
and it
was “extremely
fortunate” that no people were present as the children usually sleep in the
corner of the tent.
It said that graffiti reading “administrative
revenge” was also scrawled near the tent, implying a revenge attack following
the administrative detention of some right-wing Israeli extremists by the
Israeli authorities, who were suspected of bruning 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha
of Duma.
“It’s time for the Israeli government to put all
the efforts in bringing right wing Jewish extremists to justice,
but administrative detentions are not the answer,” said RHR spokesman
Yariv Mohar.
Local media also reported that “Revenge
for Messiah” and the David star were also scrawled on the scene.
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