Settlers vandalize Palestinian vehicles near Ramallah

Israeli settlers vandalized a number of Palestinian vehicles in suspected "price tag" attacks near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, according to a local Palestinian official.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Moataz Tawafsheh, the mayor of Sinjil town, said Israeli settlers slashed the tyres of 13 Palestinian vehicles in the town.

"Settlers sprayed racist slogans on two vehicles in the town," Tawafsheh said.

"Price tag" vandalism is a strategy used by extremist Jewish settlers to attack Palestinians and their property in retaliation for perceived threats to Israeli settlement expansion.

According to Palestinian figures, more than 700,000 Jewish settlers now live on 196 settlements (built with the Israeli government's approval) and more than 200 settler outposts (built without its approval) across the occupied West Bank.

International law views the West Bank and East Jerusalem as "occupied territories" and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity on the land to be illegal.