Nearly twenty cars were set on fire by Israeli settlers in al-Bireh, near Ramallah in the West Bank, according to statements from the Palestinian Civil Defense, corroborated by Israeli sources. An alert was sounded at 3:30 a.m., “indicating that settlers had entered the area and were carrying out acts of vandalism.”
Israeli police and the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service said they had opened an investigation, while an Israeli security source confirmed that soldiers were dispatched to the scene overnight and observed the 19-year-old fire. cars. A five-story building in front of which some were parked was also blackened by the flames.
From his window, a resident said he saw people he identified as settlers pouring liquids on vehicles in front of the building and then setting them on fire. “I screamed from my apartment and they ran away,” he said. “And when I went down with my neighbors to try to put out the fire, the settlers shot in our direction.” He also said he saw around ten arsonists fleeing towards the Israeli settlement of Beit El, very close by.
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