A Texas woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to drown a three-year-old Palestinian girl, according to reports from U.S. media that cite local police.

The incident, which occurred on May 19 in Euless, Texas, is being called racially motivated by civil rights organizations.

Per the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas), the 42-year-old accused, Elizabeth Wolf, attacked the girl at a swimming pool at the family's apartment complex. The girl's mother and six-year-old brother were also there.

“Mrs. H, the mother, who wears hijab [Islamic headscarf] and modest swimwear, was observing her kids in the shallow end of the pool when a Caucasian woman entered the pool area,” CAIR stated in a press release on Friday.

“The alleged attacker reportedly approached the mother with racial questions, then jumped into the pool, dragging the children to the deep end in an attempt to drown them,” said the civil rights organization. The mother then leapt in to save her children, at which point Wolfe reportedly tore off her headscarf.

Local Euless police soon arrived and arrested Wolf for public intoxication, as reported by news outlets.

“We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my children. My home country is in conflict, and we're confronted with this hatred here,” CAIR quoted the mother as saying.

“My daughter is traumatized; whenever I open the apartment door, she runs and hides, fearing that the woman might come back and submerge her head in water again.”

‘Hate has no place’ in Texas

Salman Bhojani, a Texas House of Representatives member from Euless, expressed his dismay over the incident.

“I am shocked and appalled by this alleged racist and Islamophobic event that occurred in my town. Hate has no place in Euless, District 92, or anywhere in our great state,” Bhojani stated.

The attack occurred amid Israel’s ongoing conflict with Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of at least 37,598 Palestinians. This war started on October 7 following an attack by Hamas on Israel, which resulted in 1,139 deaths, with many still held captive in Gaza.

In late November, three young Palestinian men in their early 20s were shot near a university campus in Vermont, injuring them.

A month prior, police in Illinois charged a 71-year-old man with murder and a hate crime for fatally stabbing a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy and wounding his mother seriously.

Police have stated that the assailant targeted them due to their religion and the ongoing war in Gaza.

In its press release, CAIR mentioned it had received 3,578 complaints of bias and discrimination in the last three months of the previous year.