Extremists vandalise cars in West Bank

NABLUS (AFP) - Suspected Jewish extremists slashed the tyres of cars in a northern West Bank village and scrawled Hebrew graffiti on a nearby wall, Palestinians and Israelis said on Monday. Hafez Abu Obaya, head of the Yasuf council, told AFP the incident had taken place overnight Sunday, saying: “Settlers wrote ‘price tag’ on a wall and punctured the tyres of three cars nearby.” Meanwhile, Israeli police raided overnight the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on long-term hunger strike, arresting his brother, family members and a police spokeswoman said on Monday.

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