Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank overnight, torching cars and spray-painting threatening graffiti, a witness and the Palestinian Authority said Monday.

Footage from the incident showed several cars up in flames and Hebrew graffiti daubed onto the walls of a home in the Ramallah-area village.

There were no immediate reports of arrests. These are highly rare in such incidents, which have taken place almost unchecked on a near-daily basis in the West Bank. Israeli police opened a probe into the incident.

Jeries Azar, a Taybeh resident and journalist for Palestine TV, told AFP his house and car were targeted in the predawn assault.

“I looked outside and saw my car on fire, and they were throwing something at the vehicle and in the direction of the house,” Azar said.

The Palestinian Authority issued a statement blaming “Israeli colonial settlers” for the attack on Taybeh.

Azar said he was terrified, recalling the fate of the Dawabsheh family, a couple who burned to death with their baby when settlers attacked their West Bank village of Duma in 2015.

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