West Bank – Mosque Vandalized With Anti-Muslim Slogans In Price Tag Attack

West Bank – A mosque was vandalized in Baka al-Gharbiya in the Wadi Ara region of central Israel overnight Saturday in an apparent price tag attack.

Anti-Muslim slogans, including “Muhammad is a pig,” were spray-painted on the walls of the mosque.

The windows of several vehicles parked in the area were also broken.

Police vowed to make every effort to find the perpetrators of the attack and bring them to justice.

Human rights group B’Tselem stated that an additional price tag attack occured early Friday morning in the West Bank village of Jalud, near the Shilo settlement.

Unknown assailants set a vehicle on fire and spray-painted the slogan “price tag,” outside of a home in Jalud, according to B’tselem.

Israeli politicians have discussed increasing penalties for right-wing extremists who carry out so-called price tag attacks in order to deter such acts which have become increasingly common in recent years.

Last month, several Muslim tombstones were spray-painted with the words “death to Arabs” and “price-tag” in Hebrew at Mamilla Cemetery in what police deemed a nationalistically-motivated hate crime at the historic site, adjacent to Jerusalem’s Independence Park.

A week later, unknown assailants threw two Molotov cocktails in a suspected price tag attack at a home in the Palestinian village of Burin, south of Nablus.

Daniel K. Eisenbud contributed to this report.

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