Palestinian village vandalized, trees chopped, in week’s 3rd price tag attack

Vandals chop down over two dozen olive trees and spray-paint walls the walls of a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank with the phrase “death to Arabs” in the third apparent price tag attack in less than a week.

A Rabbis for Human Rights field worker says eight large trees were cut down along with 20 smaller saplings in Urif outside of Nablus, which is in Area B, where the Palestinian Authority shares security responsibility with Israel.

Photos show one wall spray-painted with the biblical phrase “the stranger who approaches will be put to death” — a phrase that in context refers to a commoner, a non-High Priest, who enters the holy sanctuary.

A price tag attack reported for the third time this week. Today, in the the northern West Bank village of Urif (Area B), near Nablus. 8 large trees cut down in addition to 20 smaller ones. Walls spraypainted with "Death to Arabs" pic.twitter.com/0VaHJaCdlz

— Jacob Magid (@JacobMagid) April 18, 2018