’Israeli’ Price Tag Attacks Resurface in W Bank
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Zionist settlers torched two cars belonging to Palestinians and spray-painted anti-Arab slogans on the streets of a village in the occupied West Bank in the latest attack against Palestinians and their properties.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian activist said "Israeli" Occupation Forces [IOF] demolished a total of 50 homes in the al-Naqab desert in southern Occupied Palestine so far in 2015.
Faraj al-Naasan, the head of the village's local council explained that the "Zionist settlers stormed al-Mughayir village, spray-painted racist slogans on several walls and torched two cars".
"The slogans - written in Hebrew - included Death to Arabs and Glory to Jews as well as the phrase Price Tag," he added.
"Israeli" police spokesperson Luba Samri declared in a statement that the "Israeli" police received a complaint from Palestinians about a new suspected tag price attack in al-Mughayir town, near Ramallah.
A joint army-police force arrived at the scene to investigate the incident, she added.
Price tag is a euphemism for nationalist-motivated hate crimes by Zionist extremists, which generally target Palestinians and have increasingly also hit Christian and Muslim places of worship.
Furthermore, "Israeli" settlers set fire to a church-owned building in al-Quds overnight, hours before settlers spray-painted racist graffiti on the walls of a Palestinian school and two days after settlers torched a mosque in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat described the perpetrators of such incidents as "terrorists," blaming "Israel's" government for inciting the attacks by continuing its "illegal occupation and colonization [of the Palestinian territories] based on distorted religious claims."
Moreover, a group of Zionist settlers broke in and torched a mosque in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Witnesses said the settlers burnt 12 copies of the Qur'an, Islam's holy book, and set the carpets of the first floor of the two-story building on fire. Racist slogans were also sprayed on the walls of the mosque.
At the time, Palestinian Religious Endowments Minister Yousef Adeis said that the mosque torching was proof of "racist "Israeli" incitement" against Muslim and Christian houses of worship, adding that settlers carried out 110 separate attacks on religious sites across the Palestinian territories.
Hate crimes by Zionist settlers against Palestinians and their property were systematic and often abetted by "Israeli" government, who rarely intervened in the violent attacks or prosecuted the perpetrators.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA], there had been 2,100 Zionist settler violence attacks in the past eight years. The number quadrupled from 115 in 2006 to 399 in 2013.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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