Palestinian Official: Jewish Settlers Deface West Bank School
'Death to Arabs' sprayed alongside Star of David in what appears to be the third racially motivated incident this week, Maan reports.
Jewish settlers reportedly defaced a West Bank school with racist graffiti, in what would be the third racially motivated attack this week.
Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian official in charge of settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Palestinian news agency Maan that a number of settlers from Yitzhar spray-painted "Death to Arabs" next to a Star of David at the entrance to a school in the West Bank village of Orif, south of Nablus.
On Wednesday, a mosque in the West Bank village of Kafr Jab'a, near Bethlehem was torched. A building belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem was set on fire and vandalized early on Thursday.
Douglas accused the right-wing Israeli government of exacerbating tensions ahead of the upcoming elections, saying the arson incidents and the school attack were direct results of its "incitement."
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