In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the entrance of a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya, in the occupied West Bank, was set on fire. The walls were spray-painted with hate messages in Hebrew, including Arabs out and revenge for blood spilled in Qusra. The latter message is a reference to an incident last week, where Palestinians and Israeli forces clashed near Qusra, a village near Nablus that has lost half its land to settlements. Following the incident, settlers have carried out dozens of attacks in the village, killing 18 sheep and setting cars alight. The attack on the mosque was the latest in this price tag campaign - a term used to describe acts of vandalism or violence by radical Israeli settlers who want to exact a price from Palestinians or Israel security forces. https://middleeastmonitor/blogs/lifestyle/9294-israeli-settler-violence-mirrors-the-large-scale-aggression-implicit-in-land-grabbing
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:20:00 +0000