JERUSALEM, December 14, 2011 (WAFA) – Extremists Jews Wednesday set fire to a mosque in West Jerusalem and Palestinian-owned cars in the northern West Bank in what is believed to be a “price tag” attack, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.

Sources in Jerusalem said that Jews set fire to a room in a mosque on a West Jerusalem street and wrote anti-Muslim graffiti and “price tag” on its wall. Price tag is associated with Jewish settlers who attack Palestinian civilians in the West Bank to avenge Israeli government action against unauthorized settlement outposts.

Settlers from Tappuah settlement in the northern West Bank attacked a house that belongs to Mohammad Mousleh in the nearby Palestinian village of Yasouf while setting his car on fire, according to local sources.

They said settlers attempted to set the entire house on fire by opening a gas cylinder and igniting it, but residents were able to put off the fire before gutting the entire house. The settlers had also written “price tag” slogans on the house.

In addition, settlers set fire to a Palestinian-owned car at the entrance of Hares, west of Salfit, and wrote “price tag” slogans on it.

Settlers also set fire to a water tank and a vehicle in Doma, a village south of Nablus, and attempted to arson other cars in the town, according to local sources.

The settlers wrote graffiti on several houses in the village, reading “a gift from Yitzhar [Israeli settlement] to the Arabs.”

A spokesman for Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli rights group, told WAFA that the arson of the mosque in Jerusalem and the vehicles in the West Bank is a “terrorist attack in every sense of the word.”

He condemned the escalation in settlers’ attacks against Palestinians and their property and stressed that “whoever sets those fires aims to ignite sectarian strife in the region to the detriment of us all,” indicating that assault against holy places is absolutely rejected by all religions.

The rights group stressed that the Israeli army is obliged to take the matter seriously and arrest the perpetrators.

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