With anti-Palestinian Hate Crimes on the Rise, Two More Suspected Incidents in West Bank Overnight
Cars vandalized and walls spray painted with abusive graffiti in two separate suspected 'price tag' attacks
Two more incidents of suspected anti-Arab hate crimes occurred late Sunday night in two separate places in the West Bank, a day after Israel's security services reported an uptick in the so-called "price tag" attacks.
Cars vandalized and walls spray painted with abusive graffiti in two separate suspected 'price tag' attacks in the West Bank on April 23, 2018
Cars vandalized and walls spray painted with abusive graffiti in two separate suspected 'price tag' attacks in the West Bank on April 23, 2018 Abdullah Hamdan
In one of the incidents, the tires of a number of cars belonging to Palestinians were slashed in the town of Beit Iksa just outside Jerusalem, and graffiti was spray painted on a wall: “Fight the enemy and not the one you love.”
In the other incident, in the town of Ramun near the settlement of Rimonim in the Ramallah area, a number of tires were slashed and graffiti was spray painted, including: “We will take our fate into our hands.”
These two so-called “price tag” incidents follow a number of other, similar cases in the past few weeks. On April 13 unknown people tried to set a mosque on fire in the town of Aqraba in the northern West Bank, on April 17, tires were slashed and graffiti was spray painted in the towns of Luban al-Sharqiya and al-Sawiya. The next day, trees were vandalized and graffiti was spray painted in the town of Urif. On Friday, two similar incidents occurred in the West Bank towns of Burqa and Burin.
