The Palestinians have "
no hostility
" towards Germany, the spokesman for the Palestinian security services told AFP on Sunday March 19 the day after the attack on a car of two tourists. Germans in Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
According to a local Palestinian security source who requested anonymity, "
a group of young men attacked [Saturday] with stones a civilian car with Israeli license plates
" in the center of Nablus.
On Twitter, the German ambassador in Tel Aviv, Steffen Seibert, considered "
revolting and cowardly
" that a "
crowd attacks tourists because they do not like their license plate
".
"
We obviously have no hostility against a country whose citizens visit our cities
," Talal Dwekat, spokesman for the Palestinian security services, told AFP.
The two exfiltrated tourists
According to him, the young people were "
wary
" of a "
foreign
" vehicle, fearing that it could be used by members of the Israeli special forces infiltrating Palestinian territory, as often happens.
Many of the cars with Israeli plates circulating in Nablus are stolen vehicles usually used by young people.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been sucked into a new spiral of violence since the entry into office at the end of December of one of the most right-wing governments in the history of Israel, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The northern West Bank, in particular the cities of Nablus and Jenin, are at the heart of this renewed violence.
According to Talal Dwekat, the two German tourists were rescued by a Palestinian policeman who exfiltrated them.
