Israeli settlers have set fire to a Palestinian car in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in an apparent act of hate crime amid rising tensions across the occupied territories.

The settlers scrawled racist slogans on the vehicle and next to the home of its owner in the neighborhood of Umm Tuba during the early hours of Sunday.

Israeli settlers have in recent years carried out various attacks including arson on Palestinian property in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds and have frequently carried out acts of hate crime against Palestinian farmlands in the West Bank, uprooting olive trees.

On July 31, a group of settlers set a Palestinian home alight in the West Bank village of Duma, south of the city of Nablus, killing an 18-month-old boy and fatally injuring his parents.

Media reports indicated that racist Hebrew graffiti was found on the walls near the arson scene.

In a statement issued hours after the incident, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) condemned the “brutal assassination” of the Palestinian infant, stressing that the regime in Tel Aviv bears “full responsibility” for the arson attack.

The Sunday attack comes as a fresh wave of tensions has gripped the occupied Palestinian territories. The tensions were triggered by the Israeli regime’s imposition in August of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.