SALFIT, Friday, November 9, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli Jewish settlers predawn Friday vandalized a number of Palestinian vehicles, puncturing their tires and spray-painting racist graffiti on them, in Kafr Ad-Dik village, to the west of Salfit town in the West Bank, said local sources.

Locals said settlers broke into the town, where they punctured the tires of several vehicles and spray-painted in Hebrew racist anti-Arab graffiti on them and in their vicinity.

Slogans reportedly read “The people of Israel live” and “Arabs [have to choose] between expulsion and death”.

Israeli media refers to such attacks as “Price tag” attacks. “Price tag” refers to an underground anti-Palestinian Israeli group that routinely attacks Palestinians in the occupied territories and inside Israel.

The Israeli government still refuses to label it as a terrorist organization and considers it only as group of vandals. It also considers such acts as hate crimes against Palestinians.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Settlers‘ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank 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 transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

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