West Bank cars torched as hate crime continues

HEBRON: Vandals believed to be Jewish extremists set light to three cars in a village in the southern West Bank, Palestinian witnesses said.
The incident took place in Sair village northeast of Hebron.
The attackers had sprayed Hebrew-language graffiti near the damaged cars.
Israeli security sources confirmed the incident.
Also yesterday, sources said French prosecutors had opened a murder enquiry into former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death near Paris.
The probe comes after Arafat’s family launched legal action in France over claims the veteran Palestinian leader died of radioactive polonium poisoning.
Arafat’s widow Suha and his daughter Zawra lodged a murder complaint on July 31 in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
Arafat died at a military hospital near Paris in 2004.
Meanwhile, the mother of US activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, said the family was “deeply troubled” after a court found the Israeli army was not responsible for her death. “We are, of course, deeply saddened and deeply troubled by what we heard today from Judge Oded Gershon,” Cindy Corrie said shortly after the verdict in which the judge rejected all claims of negligence in her death.
The family have vowed to appeal the verdict, their lawyer said.
Eyewitnesses said the 23-year-old activist was killed by a military bulldozer in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003.

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