Bedouin's tent in West Bank burned down in Israeli arson attack

A Bedouin's tent in the West Bank was burned down on Thursday and a hate slogan spray-painted in another suspected ultra-nationalist attack by Jewish extremists, Israeli officials said.

Israel's Civil Administration in the West Bank said that a tent owned by a Bedouin family was set on fire in the Ein Samia area next to Ramallah. No injuries were reported.

Hebrew graffiti reading "administrators of revenge" and a Star of David were found at the scene.

The tent, used as a storage facility, was empty at the time of the arson early on Thursday morning, according to Israeli human rights group Rabbis for Human Rights.

"Inside the tent was only animal feed," the group said, and "it is extremely fortunate that no people were present, as the children usually sleep in the corner of the tent but were elsewhere due the heat."

On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon signed two decrees, ordering administrative detention of Jewish far-right leader, Meir Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim. The cabinet authorized the use of administrative detention, mostly used against Palestinian suspects, indefinite imprisonment without trial for renewable periods of six months.

The move followed an arson attack on July 31 by Jewish extremists who were not caught yet. They threw firebombs at the home of the Palestinian Dawabsha family in the West Bank village of Duma. The attack claimed the lives of 18-month-old Ali and his father Sa'ad. The mother of the family and another four-year-old son were critically wounded.

According to Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, 85 percent of the cases against Jewish perpetrators of attacks against Palestinian homes and property as well as Christian and Muslim holy sites were closed, as police could not track down suspects or gathered insufficient evidence. Only 7.4 percent of the cases resulted in an indictment. Endit