RAMALLAH, West Bank — Jewish settlers torched 20 cars during an attack on Palestinian property on the outskirts of Ramallah on Nov 4, residents said, in one of the settlers' boldest raids yet in the area that serves as the Palestinians' seat of government in the occupied West Bank.
Around a dozen attackers, masked and carrying petrol bombs, carried out the attacks at around 3am.RAMALLAH, West Bank — Jewish settlers torched 20 cars during an attack on Palestinian property on the outskirts of Ramallah on Nov 4, residents said, in one of the settlers' boldest raids yet in the area that serves as the Palestinians' seat of government in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency were investigating after receiving a report that a number of Palestinian cars had been burned, the Israeli police spokesperson said in a statement. Hamas official Abdul Rahman Shadid said the attack represented an escalation by settlers and required "escalating the confrontation and confronting these crimes", a statement by the Palestinian group said.Israel has settled the West Bank since capturing it during the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinians say the settlements have undermined the prospects for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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