Israeli extremists attack Palestinian home in West Bank: Israeli police

Israeli extremists fired two tear gas grenades into a Palestinian home in the West Bank on Tuesday, spray-painting Hebrew graffiti on the building, the Israeli police said.

Palestinian media reported that the family was at home at the time of the attack, sleeping, but unharmed.

The assailants broke a window of the house in the village of Beitilu, south of Ramallah, and threw in the grenades, Luba Samri, an Israeli police spokeswoman, said.

She added that Hebrew graffiti were scrawled on the wall, reading: "Revenge" and "Greetings, the prisoners of Zion," in an apparent reference to far-right suspects arrested in connection with the deadly arson attack in the Duma village in July.

On July 31, a group of Jewish settlers set fire on the house of Dawabsha family in the village of Duma, killing an 18-month old baby. The father and the mother died later of their wounds sustained in the attack.

Jewish ultra-nationalists have for years vandalized or torched Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, and cemeteries. These so-called "price tag" attacks seek to exact retribution for Israeli moves perceived by them as favoring the Palestinians.

The Israeli government has vowed to act with "zero tolerance" against such attacks and has approved several measures to halt the trend, including administrative detention, an incarceration without charges for renewable periods of six months. However, indictments against such attackers are rarely served. Endit