Olive tree in the village of Burin which was allegedly vandalized by settlers from Yitzhar

This is a list of attacks reported or suspected price tag (Hebrew: מדיניות תג מחיר) attacks or violence aimed at the Palestinian population and at Israeli security forces[1] by radical Israeli settlers, who, according to The New York Times, "exact a price from local Palestinians or from the Israeli security forces for any action taken against their settlement enterprise".[2][3][4] The Wall Street Journal states that the term refers to "a campaign of retribution by fundamentalist Israeli youths against Palestinians in the West Bank".[5] Over the period from January 2012 to June 2013, Israeli police registered 788 cases of suspected price tag assaults in which 276 arrests were conducted, leading to 154 indictments.[6]

2008 [ edit ]

23 July 2008 – 20 settlers attack the Palestinian village of Burin, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires, after the IDF evacuated settlers from a residence-bus in the illegal outpost of Adei Ad. [7]

October 2008 – After government attempts to evacuate outposts, settlers unleashed a dog against an Israeli company commander, broke the hand of a deputy battalion commander and punctured the tires of a vehicle of a reserve soldier. [8]

4 December 2008 – After Israeli police evacuated settlers from Beit HaShalom in Hebron, settlers said they would implement a price tag policy, and three Palestinians, including a father and son, were wounded by gunfire, 12 others injured and 15 cars torched.[9] Follow-up incidents in which settlers threw stones at road junctions, fired and vandalized Palestinian property, cut down olive trees, and slashed vehicle tires occurred in at least 12 other locations throughout the West Bank later that day.[10]

2009 [ edit ]

2010 [ edit ]

April 2010 – Settlers torched three Palestinian vehicles in Huwara near Nablus. [15]

4 May 2010 – Settlers torched the main mosque of the al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya village, its extensive carpets and Korans, south of Nablus. [15]

12 May 2010 – Fundamentalist settlers torched an 11-Dunam olive orchard in al-Rababa valley, in Silwan, destroying 3 300-year-old trees in the grove and damaging many others. [15]

May 2010 – Settlers from Asfar burned more than 200 trees belonging to Palestinians from the village of Sa'ir, near Hebron. [16]

25 July 2010 – In retaliation for the government's demolition of two caravans and a goat pen at Givat Ronen, settlers embarked on a price tag mission involving protests, road blocks and an attempt to torch an open field. One villager of Burin was injured in clashes with the settlers, and four settlers were wounded, one seriously. [17] [18]

16 August 2010 – 250 olive trees in the villages of Kosra and Jaloud, near Nablus, were uprooted by settlers from Shvut Rachel, according to an official of the PNA. [19]

3 October 2010 – Arsonists, suspected of coming from Gush Etzion, set fire to rugs, defaced a Koran, and scrawled 'revenge' on the walls of the mosque of Al Fajjar/Beit Fajar, near Bethlehem. [20] [21]

13–14 October 2010 – Two vehicles, owned by a Palestinians were set on fire in Qusra, and branded with a 'price tag' slogan, according to B'tselem. [22]

15 October 2010 – A 500-dunam olive grove by the village of Farata was firebombed by settlers from the wildcat Jewish settlement of Havat Gilad [23] as part of a price tag operation. According to eyewitness Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, who notified authorities as the arson attack got underway, Israeli soldiers prevented fire trucks from entering to put out the blaze for an hour, and local Palestinians asking for their assistance were themselves detained for three hours. [24]

as part of a price tag operation. According to eyewitness Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, who notified authorities as the arson attack got underway, Israeli soldiers prevented fire trucks from entering to put out the blaze for an hour, and local Palestinians asking for their assistance were themselves detained for three hours. 19 October 2010 – Rabbis for Human Rights reported a girls' school at As-Sawiya was broken into, and a schoolroom burnt.[24]

2011 [ edit ]

Hebrew text in Qusra mosque, after "price-tag" attack by settlers, in September 2011.

Hebrew text on the wall of the Qusra mosque, after "price-tag" attack by settlers, in September 2011.

2012 [ edit ]

56 price tag attacks, the majority against Palestinians, took place in Jerusalem alone over 2012. Suspects were arrested for 12 such incidents, though not all of them were indicted.[53] Some 623 price-tag related cases were investigated, involving 200 arrests and the filing of 123 indictments.[6]

2013 [ edit ]

From January to November 120 price tag attacks against Arabs in the Binyamin /al-Bireh area of the north West Bank, leading one Israeli security official to state that these acts might have a destructive impact by motivating Palestinians to engage in terror. Whereas no Israeli had been killed in 2012, 4 had been murdered as of November, 2013.[74] From January to June 2013 165 cases involving price-tag attacks were opened, some 76 suspects were arrested and 31 indictments were filed.[6]

2014 [ edit ]

A steep rise in attacks occurred after April 2 following the demolition of illegal outposts in the Yitzhar settlement, with some 16 hate crimes taking place in little over a month, as compared to 17 registered in the peceding three months.[110] From January through to mid May, the Israeli police unit for nationalist crimes, has opened 78 new files, arrested 102 suspects and served 37 indictments.[111]

January 31, 2014, graffiti on a Palestinian house outside Ma'ale Levona . "Jews Wake Up!", "Death to the Arabs", "Revenge!"

2015 [ edit ]

Meretz sign at a demonstration against Price Tags attacks at Rabin Square on 1 August 2015. "Terror Tag: this is not a youth movement, and these are not pranks"

See also [ edit ]