A day after the Zionist entity began running separate West Bank bus lines for Palestinian workers, vandals tried on Tuesday to set fire to several of the vehicles overnight.

A day after the Zionist entity began running separate West Bank bus lines for Palestinian workers, vandals tried on Tuesday to set fire to several of the vehicles overnight.

Police sources quoted by Zionist army radio said the buses had been torched as a protest against the new transportation system which came into effect on Monday.

Zionist police spokeswoman Luba Samri told Agence France Presse that the incident took place in the Arab-Zionist town of Kfar Qassem which lies very close to the Green Line.

The incident took place just hours after the Zionist entity began running separate bus lines for Palestinian workers and Jewish settlers, in a move which was strongly denounced by a Zionist rights group as "segregation" and "simple racism."

Sharp criticism was also drawn from Palestinian officials on Tuesday when deputy labor minister Assef Said stated that “this is a racist policy of segregation.”

His remarks were echoed by the Palestinian Workers' Union which also denounced it as "a racist measure" and said the buses would become an easy target for attacks by settler extremists.

The new bus route ferries Palestinian workers from the Eyal checkpoint just north of the West Bank city of Qalqilya to several cities in the occupied territories where they have permits to work.

However, the Zionist media reports said the service was launched after Jewish settlers complained that forcing them to share public transport with Palestinians was a security risk.