Jewish settlers from the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba carried out anti-Arab revenge attacks over the weekend after an 11-year-old Jewish girl died in a car accident blamed on Arab stone-throwers.
Police said it was a regular accident that caused the death of Hava Wachsberg, 11. But the girl’s father insists he was forced to drive off the road after stones were thrown at the car.
The girl was flung out of the window and died two days later from her wounds.
Kiryat Arba residents rejected the police account, and scores of activists went through the Arab city of Hebron damaging property to avenge Hava’s death.
In other violence, a Palestinian youth returning from Friday prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem stabbed and lightly wounded a border police officer, Asad Atillah.
The officer was directing traffic near the Damascus Gate when the assailant emerged from the Old City’s alleys and stabbed the officer in the back of his neck.
On Sunday, shots were fired at a passenger bus and at a pickup truck which passed by Al-Askar refugee camp in Nablus. No one was hurt.
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