Ein Samia, West Bank (CNN) Suspected Jewish extremists set a tent belonging to a Palestinian Bedouin family on fire in an overnight arson attack, a Palestinian official told CNN on Thursday, two weeks after another arson on a Palestinian home killed a toddler and his father.
In the latest attack, a group of suspected Jewish extremists threw flammable material on the tent, said Ghassan Douglass, a Palestinian official in charge of monitoring settlement activity in the north of the West Bank. No one was hurt.
The tent belonged to the family of Yousuf Ka'abna in the village of Ein Samia, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, Douglass said.
Ka'abna told CNN his family had lived in the tent earlier but had moved down to other, cooler tents amid a recent heat wave. It still contained food, mattresses and bicycles, he said -- all now lost.
The arson appears to have been the latest so-called price tag attack, a term used to denote reprisals against Palestinians, often in response to moves by the Israeli government to evacuate illegal West Bank outposts.
The extremists spray-painted graffiti on the rocks by where the Bedouin tent was, reading "administrative revenge," Douglass said.
It is an apparent reference to the administrative detention recently imposed on three right-wing Israeli extremists by the Israeli authorities.
