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Graffiti spray-painted at entrance to Palestinian village; incident follows recent clashes between area settlers and police.
By Haaretz

A Palestinian taxi was set on fire and graffiti spray-painted at the entrance to a Palestinian village in the Hebron Hills early Monday morning, according to Army Radio, in what appeared to be a "price-tag" attack by West Bank settlers.

"Price-tag" refers to attacks and acts of vandalism by Jewish settlers against Palestinians and other targets, mainly in the West Bank.

The vandals spray-painted "price-tag Susia" and "regards from Meir Ettinger." Susia is the name of a settlement where settlers recently clashed with police. Ettinger is a settler charged with monitoring IDF movements in the West Bank.

Earlier this month, price-tag graffiti was found at the entrance to the Church of the Dormition on Mount Zion, just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City. The graffiti read "Jesus, son of a bitch, price tag."

Following that incident, Jerusalem's police chief ordered the formation of a special investigative team charged with locating the perpetrators.

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Settlers torch car, spray racist slogans in Hebron village

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Settlers torched a car and sprayed racists slogans in the Hebron village of Abu al-Asja on Monday, a Ma'an correspondent said.

Villagers told Ma'an that settlers from Susiya burnt a car and vandalized homes in the presence of Israeli soldiers, who were in the area prior to the attack.

Israeli forces then harassed Ma'an-Mix and Palestine TV crews who were reporting the incident, forcing them to delete the footage they had captured, Ma'an's reporter said.

The media crews were on the way back from Abu al-Asja when stopped by soldiers, who seized the TV cameras until military activity in the area had ended.

The reporters and cameramen were only allowed to leave after the Palestinian liaison department contacted its Israeli equivalent.

The owner of the torched car was questioned by Israeli authorities.