Jerusalem, October 03: A mosque in northern Israel was torched overnight with slogans scrawled on its outside walls, in what police on Monday denounced as “a very severe price tag incident.”
Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told Agencies that a number of suspects entered the mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria in the Upper Galilee and set fire to it, causing heavy damage to the carpets and walls.
On the outside of the mosque were scrawled the words “price tag” and “revenge” in Hebrew, Rosenfeld said.
Almost all “price tag” attacks occur in the occupied West Bank, but last year a similar incident took place in the Arab Israeli village of Iblin, also in the northern Galilee region.
Northern District Police Commander Roni Attia set up a special investigation team to deal with the incident, and police heightened security in the area to prevent any “random incidents,” Rosenfeld said.
“This is a very severe price tag incident,” police quoted Attia as saying.
He called on residents of the area to preserve public order and allow the police to investigate the incident without disturbances.
-Agencies