Vandals set fire to a mosque in the village of Aqraba near Nablus on Monday night and spray-painted in Hebrew letters: "price tag" and "Tapuach is Kahane," an apparent reference to the nearby settlement of Tapuach and the late extreme right-wing militant Rabbi Meir Kahane. The mosque was partially burned but there were no injuries. Flammable liquid was poured through a shattered window into the mosque. The Israel Defense Forces and Civil Administration said that troops had been sent immediately to look into the incident. Head of anti-hate group "Tag Meir" ("Enlightenment Tag"), Gadi Gvaryahu, said, "Since December 2009, 35 mosques, churches and monasteries have been vandalized or torched ... in Judea and Samaria and throughout Israel. No one has been indicted for these crimes so far. There responsibility for the safety of Arabs in Judea and Samaria and throughout Israel falls squarely on the shoulders of the Israeli government." On Saturday, two youths were arrested under suspicion that they attacked a family of olive pickers in Yasuf. According to the family, seven settlers came toward them from the direction of western Tapuach and attacked them. One of the women in the family was injured in her leg and taken to hospital with light wounds. About a month ago, four youths from Arad, Beit El and the Binyamin region were indicted, after being recorded on security cameras escaping a coffee shop that they had set on fire in Dura al-Qar. The youths also wrote "revenge" on the shop's door. According to police and the Shin Bet security agency, the incident was in response to the torching of a building in Maaleh Haarbaa, near Beit El.
