A Jewish settler from Beit-El in the West Bank was reported in “serious condition” late Sunday night after his car was firebombed and gutted by flames on a road north of Jerusalem.
The settler, whose surname is Kalmanovich, was hospitalized for severe burns on his face, hands, arms and legs. Serious concern was expressed here Sunday night that the latest terrorist act, coming at a time of renewed Palestinian violence in the territories, could trigger a rampage of revenge by infuriated Jewish settlers.
As Israel Defense Force unit combed the area of the attack near Ramallah in search of the assailant. The officer in command of the central sector, Maj. Gen. Amram Mitzna, visited Beit-EI to try to calm tempers.
A similar firebombing on a West Bank road last April took the lives of Ofra Moses and her son, Tal, and severely burned three other members of the family, all from Alfei Menashe in the West Bank. After that incident, Jewish settlers raided the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya, shooting into homes and doing considerable damage to property.
Only last Friday, the alleged perpetrator of the April firebombing, Mahmud Adel Hussein Daoudy, 25, was arraigned in a Nablus court.
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