Moataz Tawafsheh, the mayor of Sinjil town, said Israeli settlers slashed the tyres of 13 Palestinian vehicles in the town.
Israeli settlers vandalized a number of Palestinian vehicles in suspected “price tag” attacks near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, according to a local Palestinian official.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Moataz Tawafsheh, the mayor of Sinjil town, said Israeli settlers slashed the tyres of 13 Palestinian vehicles in the town.
“Settlers sprayed racist slogans on two vehicles in the town,” Tawafsheh said.
Arab members of Knesset (Israel’s parliament) are seeking UN censure of Israel over a recent law recognizing Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people”, The Jerusalem Post daily reported.“The Palestinian delegation, in cooperation with Knesset members from the Arab parties, is planning steps aimed at smearing Israel and damaging its image through incitement and lies,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said.Last week, Arab MK Aida Touma Suleiman from the Joint Arab List met with UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo in New York to discuss the controversial legislation, which was passed by Knesset last month.The joint Arab list has 13 members in the 120-member Israeli Knesset.Earlier this month, Arab MKs petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to annul law."We have yet to present a proposal to the UN to condemn Israel, but perhaps we will do so," Suleiman told Israeli army radio.The Nation-State law defines Israel as a Jewish state with a “united Jerusalem” as its capital. It has also promoted Hebrew as the only official language, stripping Arabic as an official language while recognising its “special status”.The legislation risks further alienating the Arab minority who argue they already face discrimination from Israeli Jews and the government and already feel as though they are second-class citizens.Last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to appeal the Israeli law at the UN.
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"Price tag" vandalism is a strategy used by extremist Jewish settlers to attack Palestinians and their property in retaliation for perceived threats to Israeli settlement expansion.
According to Palestinian figures, more than 700,000 Jewish settlers now live on 196 settlements (built with the Israeli government’s approval) and more than 200 settler outposts (built without its approval) across the occupied West Bank.
International law views the West Bank and East Jerusalem as "occupied territories" and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity on the land to be illegal.
The Israeli army on Monday rounded up eight Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli army statement.The nine were detained for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army asserted without elaborating on the nature of the activities.They have since been remanded into custody for further investigation, according to the same statement.Israeli police arrest seven Palestinians in JerusalemThe Israeli army frequently conducts sweeping arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians.According to Palestinian figures, some 6,500 Palestinians are currently languishing in Israeli prisons, including scores of women, roughly 350 minors, and at least six members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.PLO legislature decries US aid cut to Palestinians50 Palestinians injured by live bullets in Gaza
Israeli army arrests 8 Palestinians in West Bank raids