Mosque defaced, 3 cars torched in West Bank
Monday, January 9, 2012
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police say a mosque has been defaced with Hebrew graffiti and three cars have been torched in a Palestinian village in the West Bank.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Wednesday that vandals painted "price tag" and "Gal Arye Yosef" overnight on a wall of the mosque in the village of Dir Istiyya.
"Price tag" refers to a practice by Jewish extremists of accosting Palestinian property -- and more recently, Israeli military bases -- in retaliation for Israeli government action against settlers.
Gal Arye Yosef is the name of a small, unauthorized settlement outpost that Israeli security forces demolished on Tuesday.
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