"Settler violence against Palestinians raises alarm in Israel" is an article which appeared today in the Washington Post. The article analyzes recent acts of violence against Palestinians in the Israeli society. "...human rights activists and analysts say an act of violence against Palestinians that occurred hours earlier in a much different context — a stretch of highway in an Israeli-controlled section of the occupied West Bank — has become a test case for an equally grave problem: rising attacks by radical Israeli settlers on Palestinians and their property," - the article starts.
The condemnations of these incidents by the Israeli authorities "reflect growing alarm among Israeli officials and international observers over escalating vandalism of Palestinian mosques and property, assaults against Palestinians and attacks on the Israeli military", the author of the article believes.
Despite the fact that acts of violence occur also against the Israelis, the newspaper stresses that "even military officials have said Israelis too rarely face punishment for crimes against Palestinians and their property. Direct comparisons of conviction rates are impossible, because Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank are prosecuted in different justice systems."
