List of Israeli price tag attacks

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

This is a list of attacks reported as being part of or suspected as being part of the price tag policy (Hebrew: מדיניות תג מחיר). This policy refers to acts of random violence aimed at the Palestinian population and Israeli security forces 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". The Wall Street Journal states that the term refers to "a campaign of retribution by fundamentalist Israeli youths against Palestinians in the West Bank".

2008

• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 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.

2009

• 1 June 2009 – Settlers blocked the main Qalqilya-Nablus road near the Qedumim settlement and stoned and assaulted Palestinian drivers trying to remove the debris, injuring 6, after a cell-phone alert had circulated the evening before warning that the Israeli army was about to evacuate the Ramat Gilad outpost, located east of the Qarnei Shomron settlement in the Qalqilya Governorate. Settlers also set fire that day to roughly 1,300 olive trees and 280 dunums of wheat and barley crops belonging residents of Palestinian villages along Road 60 between the Qedumim and Yitzhar settlements. No evacuation was carried out.
• 20 July 2009 – After a few uninhabited structures in 3 settlement outposts in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates were removed by Israeli authorities, from over 1,000 to 1,500 olive trees belonging villagers from Tell, Madama, Burin, Asira al-Qibliya and Jit were destroyed. Cars were stoned, junctions blocked, two Palestinians motorists were injured, and six vehicles damaged near Nablus in an attack attributed by Palestinians to settlers from Yitzhar.
• 23 July 2009 – Connected to the events 3 days earlier, over 20 armed settlers from an outpost near Yitzhar entered the village of Asira al-Qibliya and hurled stones at the villagers. When the villagers responded with stones, Israeli security forces arrived, fired sound bombs and teargas at them, resulting in the injury of one Palestinian boy.
• 9 September 2009 – After Israeli forces removed the temporary structures in the outpost of Ramat Haregel in the Hebron Governorate, more than 10 settlers from the Israeli settlement of Susiya, went to the neighbouring Palestinian village of that name, hurled stones and physically assaulted the villagers, resulting in injuries to 15 members of a family, including 10 children. After Israeli forces intervened, the settlers returned to Susiya, none were detained, and the outpost was reconstructed that night.
• 14 October 2009 – Some 200 olive trees belonging to the village of Al Mughayyir, were felled by settlers from the illegal settler oupost at Adei Ad, near Shvut Rachel.
• 9 December 2009 – The Hasan Khadr Mosque at the village of Yasuf near Salfit was burnt, with 'price tag' slogan written on the wall. In January 2010, several settlers from the Yitzhar settlement were arrested as suspects.

2010

• April 2010 – Settlers torched three Palestinian vehicles in Huwara near Nablus.
• 4 May 2010 – Settlers torched the main mosque of the al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya village, its extensive carpets and Korans, south of Nablus.
• 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.
• May 2010 – Settlers from Asfar burned more than 200 trees belonging to Palestinians from the village of Sa'ir, near Hebron.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.

2011

• 27 February 2011 – In a price-tag operation against the evacuation of Havat Gilad, settlers threw molotov cocktails at a house in the village of Huwara.
• 28 February 2011 – Dozens of windshields of Palestinian cars were smashed in Hebron in retaliation for the recent evacuation of Havat Gilad.
• 4 March 2011 – Settlers from Shvut Rachel damaged roughly 500 olive trees belonging to the village of Sorra, near Nablus, and stoned homes, apparently in reprisal for the dismantling of several mobile homes.
• 17 March 2011 – 5 to 7 Jewish men, using a metal pipe and tear gas, assaulted two Palestinian labourers renovating a house on the edge of the settlement of Shiloh. A Jewish security guard protecting them was also injured slightly.
• 6 June 2011 – A mosque was defaced and damaged in Al Mughayyir, near Ramallah
• 25 July 2011 – Settlers torched the farmlands of the village of Sorra, after Israeli soldiers intervened to stop Israeli peace activists from preventing a group of settlers from uprooting trees, according to IMEMC.
• 5 September 2011 – Settlers torched the mosque of Qusra, south of Nablus.
• 7 September 2011 – Unknown perpetrators slashed the tires and cut the cables of 12 army vehicles at an IDF base, in retaliation for the demolition of 3 homes at the illegal settlement of Migron.
• 8 September 2011 – Settler youths made an attempt to deface the mosque of the village of Yatma, near Rechelim and Kfar Tapuach, in the Nablus Governorate in a price tag assault.
• 9 September 2011 - Graffiti slogans in Hebrew were sprayed on the Amir Hassan mosque in Birzeit and over a wall of the Birzeit University near Ramallah. The graffiti said:"Mohammad is a pig" and "death to Arabs."
• 11 September 2011 – house of a left-wing activist in Jerusalem defaced with graffiti proclaiming "death to the traitors" and "price tag Migron"
• 25 September 2011 – Roughly 100 olive trees felled in the village of Doma south of Nablus, in a suspected price-tag action.
• 28 September 2011 – A grove of 45 olive trees uprooted near Hebron, apparently in reprisal for the death of a settler and his son.
• 3 October 2011 – Burning of a mosque at the Bedouin town Tuba-Zangariyye in the North District of Israel.
• 5 October 2011 – Settlers Uprooted 200 Olive Tree at Qusra, near Nablus.
• 7 October 2011 – Two cemeteries – one Christian and one Muslim – in Jaffa desecrated with far-right graffiti, including “price tag” and “death to Arabs.”.

• 11 October 2011 – The Yitzchak Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv was desecrated, when a vandal sprayed the words "price tag" and "release Yigal Amir" on the memorial.
• 25 October 2011 – 20 trees from an olive grove at Beit Safafa owned by an Arab family of Jerusalem uprooted, with a price-tag sign posted nearby.
• 30 October 2011 – Vandals torched an Arab restaurant in Jaffa, and, according to a Tel Aviv-Jaffa city council member, the phrases "price tag" and "Kahane was right." were scrawled on its walls.
• 7 December 2011 – Arsonists tried to set fire to the mosque of the Palestinian village of Burkina, near the settlement of Ariel, and also torched two Palestinian vehicles, in a suspected 'price tag' assault.
• 13 December 2011 – 50 settlers and right-wing Jewish activists broke into the Efraim Regional Brigade Headquarters near the settlement of Kedumim, damaging military vehicles, torching tires, hurling Molotov cocktails and throwing rocks. An IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai however refrained from using this term for the incident, noting that IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz hasn't used it for some time, and said that it needed to be defined correctly.
• 13–14 Dec 2011 – Arsonists torched the Nebi Akasha Mosque in Jerusalem marking the burial site of an Islamic prophet, Akasha bin Mohsin, in a suspected price tag action.
• 14–15 Dec 2011 – Arsonists defaced and torched the mosque at the Palestinian village of Burqa near Nablus, The slogans "Mitzpe Yitzhar" and "War," scrawled on the mosque suggest this was a 'price tag' retaliation for the dismantlement of the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Yitzhar conducted earlier by the IDF.
• 18 December 2011 – Hate slogans and the signature 'price tag' defaced the walls of the mosque of Bnei Naim, east of Hebron.

2012

• 5 January 2012 - In what police described as a 'price tag' attack, a Palestinian car-wash Shuafat was set on fire, and a GMC minivan and a truck belonging to Palestinians also incinerated.
• 11 January 2012 - A mosque at the West Bank Palestinian village of Dir Istiyya was defaced with graffiti, reading 'Price tag' and 'Gal Arye Yosef' (an illegal outpost, demolished some days earlier, near Itamar),' in Hebrew, and three cars nearby were torched.
• 16 January 2012 - Mohammad Ghannam, brother of Ramallah's governor, Leila Ghannam, had his car torched outside Deir Dibwan village near Ramallah in a possible price tag operation.
• 7 February 2012 - In Jerusalem, a Jewish-Arab bilingual school, a symbol of coexistence, in which half the students are Jews and half are Arab, and the 11th-century Monastery of the Cross administered by the Greek Orthodox church were defaced with graffiti saying "Death to Arabs", "Kahane was right" and "Death to Christians" as well as "price tag". The two incidents, suspected of being 'price tag' attacks carried out by Jewish extremists, were later attributed to two Bedouin youths, who confessed to the acts.
• 20 February 2012 - Vandals daubed "Death to Christianity", "Jesus is dead," and "Mary was a prostitute" on the Jerusalem Baptist Narkis Street Congregation church, and slashed the tires of several cars parked in the compound. The acts were countersigned by price tag graffiti.
• June 8, 2012 - The tires of 14 cars were slashed and graffiti, including 'death to Arabs,' 'revenge', 'Kahane was right,' 'regards from Havat Gilad,' Ulpana neighbourhood,' and 'price tag', painted over the vehicles of residents of the Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom.
• 19 June 2012 - The 'Grand Mosque' the West Bank village of Jab'a was set alight and sprayed with the graffiti, 'The war has begun', and 'price tag', apparently in response to the evacuation of the Jewish settlement at Ulpana.
• 1 August 2012 - A Palestinian family in Sinjil, between the settlements of Shiloh and Ma'aleh Levona found plastic containers of benzine under their pickup truck, and a graffiti in Hebrew: "Don't you touch the lands" written on it.
• 23 August 2012 - Unidentified assailants, described by local Palestinians only as settlers wearing kippot, tried to torch two cars, after writing graffiti on them, in the West Bank village of Awarta.
• 27 August 2012 -A car was torched, and others sprayed with graffiti reading "Price Tag", "Migron", "death to the enemy"and "Revenge to Arabs," at Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah overnight after reports that settlers were in the area.
• 4 September 2012 -. Graffiti reading "Jesus is a monkey" were sprayed on a Christian monastery, and its door was set on fire, at Latrun in a suspected price tag attack for the evacuation of Migron. In late June, 2013, police arrested a Bnei Brak resident on suspicion that he had been involved in the incident.
• 3 October 2012 -The entrance to the Church of the Dormition on Mount Zion was sprayed with graffiti that read "Jesus, son of a bitch, price tag."
• 22 October 2012 - A car was set on fire and graffiti, reading " price-tag Susia " and "regards from Meir Ettinger." sprayed on the entrance to a village in the Hebron area.
• 25 November 2012- 8 Palestinian cars in Shuafat were vandalized with price-tag slogans that read:'Gaza Price Tag'.
• 3 December 2012 -3 youths were arrested while endeavouring to vandalise property at the West Bank village of Samu'a, after apparently torching a car and spraying price-tag grffiti in the nearby town of ad-Dhahiriya.

2013

• 1 January 2013 Graffiti "Price tag. The only good Arab is a dead Arab. Vengeance for Yitzhar," and "This time on buildings, next time on humans," were sprayed on the village of Beit Umar, near Hebron.

• 3 January 2013 According to Palestinian, in a village south of Nablus, four cars had their tires slashed, with the words "Solidarity with Esh Kodesh" (an Israeli outpost), and a Star of David spray-painted on a nearby wall.
• 5 February 2013. Two cars were set on fired, and graffiti, reading '"Jewish blood is not cheap. Tapuah is Kahane.", 'sprayed on a nearby wall, at Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah. Both the IDF and B'tselem assume the act was a price-tag incident. The slogan may refer to an incident in which a Jewish boy was knifed at Tapuah Junction, nearby where, at Kfar Tapuah, many followers of Meir Kahane live.

• 14 February 2013. Price-tag” vandals, protesting demolitions at the Israeli outpost outpost of Ma'ale Rehav'am in the West Bank, targeted an historic Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem by spraying Jewish stars and price tag slogans on 10 Muslim gravestones.

• 18 February 2013 At Palestinian village of Yasuf near the settlement of Kfar Tapuah the tires of three cars were slashed and a wall daubed with the slogan “price tag, stone terror”, according to local villagers by a carload of settlers.

• 21 February 2013.Jewish extremists vandalized 6 cars, torching 4 of them, in the village of Qusra, according to B'tselem. IDF confirmation was lacking due to safety concerns over entering the village, but the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad condemned both the incident as a “price tag” attack and also the IDF's demolition of electricity poles in Qusra a day earlier.

• 6 March 2013. A Mevaseret Zion resident was arrested, while caught in the act, for vandalising Palestinian cars, and spraying "death to Arabs," in an industrial park in the Shiloh settlement near Jerusalem.

• 8 March 2013. In Alsawiyah, near Tapuah. seventy-five olive trees were cut down to stumps. Another twenty-one mature olive trees were clear-cut. “Price Tag” was sprayed in the area, as well as illegible scrawlings, possibly “Non-Jewish Terrorism.”

• 7 April 2013. Vandals defaced two mosques, and slashed the tires of several cars in the Palestinian village of Tekoa, reportedly in retaliation for stone-throwing incidents, and in revenge for injuries from stoning sustained by a baby at the settlement of Ariel in the preceding month.

• 22 April 2013 Overnight 15 Palestinian cars were torched in separate incidents ascribed to ‘price tag’ vandals. 11 of the cars were set alight in Deir Jarir, destroying four completely. No graffiti were found but local Palestinians blamed the vandalism on settlers.

• 23 April 2013. Four vehicles owned by an Israeli-Palestinian were put to the torch at Akbara, a village near Safed. Graffiti reading "don't touch our girls price tag,' were found nearby.

• 24 April 2013 After a burglary of an Arab residence in Tel Aviv, graffiti reading "Death to Arabs" "Go away" and "Price tag" were found on the door of their apartment.

• 30 April 2013. Settlers entered the village of Beit Ilu near Ramallah and sprayed “price tag” graffiti opn one of the homes.

• 13 May 2013. Three cars were torched near a mosque at the village of Umm al-Qutuf in Wadi Ara. The mosque wall was defaced with graffiti reading "price-tag" together with a Star of David and "Eviatar,"

• 15 May 2013. It was reported that, some days earlier, vandals set fire to two cars in the village of Nein, near Afula, spraying price tag graffiti.

• 23 May 2013 . Price-taggers targeting Arabs also damaged Jewish property when five cars, three belonging to Arabs, two to Jews, in Gilo Jerusalem suffered tire-slashing, and "price tag" was sprayed nearby.
• 29 May 2013. In a wave of attacks, five cars in the village of Zubeidat northeast of Jericho, and four in the village of Marj en-Naaja, were torched and sprayed with graffiti reading “30 days since Evyatar – may God avenge his death.” Two cars were torched and sprayed with a similar sign at the village of Rantis, west of Ramallah. In Jerusalem, seven car had their tires punctured, four of the seven at French Hill, and three at the entrance to Shuafat. The graffiti read “Jewish blood is not cheap”.

• 30 May 2013. The tires of three cars were punctured in Beit Ilo, Binyamin, north-west of Ramallah, with graffiti reading, "revenge", and on a nearby wall, undersigned with "price tag" the words "regards from Baruch Tzuri to Eviatar", alluding to a Yitzhar settler stabbed to death by a Palestinian at Tapuah Junction near Nablus on April 30.

• 30 May 2013. Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion was sprayed, for the second time in several months, with graffiti reading 'Jesus is a monkey', and the tires of two cars parked there were slashed, apparently in retribution for the dismantling of an illegal outpost, Havat Maon.

• 12 June 2013 On several Orthodox Christian tombs the words "Price tag," and "revenge" were sprayed, at a Christian cemetery in Jaffa. Allusions were also made to two Bat Yam synagogues defaced with Nazis symbols in May.

• 13 June 2013. Vandals set fire to two cars in a Sheikh Jarrah parking lot, in a price tag act police believe was racially motivated.

• 18 June 2013. 'Arabs out' graffiti were sprayed and tires of 28 Palestinian cars slashed at Abu Ghosh.

• 22 June 2013 The tires of 21 Palestinian cars were punctured and slashed at Beit Hanina, accompanied by the graffiti, 'We do not keep silent over stone-throwing' and the Star of David.