They approached a house in which the Dawabsheh family was fast asleep, smashed several of the house’s windows, and threw in firebombs, causing it to go up in flames.
A 34-year-old homeless man was arrested in connection to the arson attack on Frishman Beach, Israel Police said.
Videos of fire damage outside the embassy have circulated online.
In Nov. 2021, then-18-year-old Franklin Barrett Sechriest was arrested on local and federal arson charges for setting fire to the synagogue, a Reform congregation.
Security forces successfully rescued the driver shortly after the incident began.
Witnesses told German news media they saw a man placing a box inside the former telephone booth that served as the “street library,” and setting it on fire.
The investigation into the incident was taken over by the Federal Criminal Police Office, Germany's central criminal investigation agency.
This vandalism and attack in Abu Ghosh have appeared amid a rapid increase in settler violence since a Palestinian terror attack where four Israelis were killed outside of a gas station in Eli.
"People ram-raided my home before starting a fire to torch my house, where my wife and my two young children were sleeping," Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said.
George Carneiro owns both properties that he is accused of having burnt down.
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