Vandals graffiti, set fire to car near Bethlehem

Settlers, Palestinians clash in W. Bank; perpetrators spray paint car with words "a good Arab is a dead Arab," and "revenge, Yitzhar."

"Price tag" graffiti in Beit Ummar 370 (photo credit: Manal Jabari/ B'Tselem)
"Price tag" graffiti in Beit Ummar 370
(photo credit: Manal Jabari/ B'Tselem)
A car was torched and racist graffiti was spray-painted on a wall in the Palestinian village of Beit Umar early Tuesday morning, in what is being investigated as a nationalistically motivated “price-tag” attack.
In the early hours before sunrise Tuesday, the IDF received a call that a car was on fire in the village, and some time later soldiers were sent to inspect the scene – where they found the torched car and the nearby graffiti.
Pictures posted online showed graffiti reading “A good Arab is a dead Arab” and “This time it’s property, next time a life.”
There was also a spray-painted Star of David and graffiti reading “Revenge, Yitzhar,” a reference to the West Bank settlement where the IDF demolished a number of structures this past November and in 2011.
On Tuesday the Judea and Samaria police district said it had opened an investigation into the incident.