Damaged graves and racist graffiti have been found in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West Bank after a Jewish group visited the area.
Palestinians told an Israeli rights group they saw Jewish pilgrims and Israeli soldiers in the area which is also a Jewish burial site, on Tuesday.
The Israeli military says it is investigating the incident.
On Tuesday 10 people from a nearby settlement were arrested and questioned over an arson attack on a mosque.
At least two tombstones were damaged in the cemetery outside the village, and food and rubbish were left on graves.
In the village, offensive slogans about Arabs were found scrawled in Hebrew, English and Russian.
Israelis are forbidden from entering Awarta, but the Israeli military occasionally organises group trips for settlers to visit nearby Jewish tombs.
Palestinians told the Israeli rights group B'tselem that such a visit had taken place on Tuesday night, and the damage was discovered on Wednesday morning.
B'tselem said the tombs may have been ones that had been previously broken and repaired.
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