This is a list of attacks reported or suspected price tag () attacks or violence aimed at the Palestinian population and at Israeli security forcesB'tselem, Background on violence by settlers,' 2011:'In recent years, settlers have carried out violent acts under the slogan "price tag." These are 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".Isabel Kershner, Mosque Set on Fire in Northern Israel, at The New York Times, 3 October 2011:'The attack followed a series of similar assaults on mosques in the West Bank by arsonists suspected of being radical settlers as part of a campaign known as "price tag," which seeks to exact a price from local Palestinians for violence against settlers or from Israeli security forces for taking action against illegal construction in Jewish outposts in the West Bank.'Uri Friedman, The 'Price Tag' Menace: Vigilante Israeli Settler Attacks Spread, at The Atlantic Wire, 3 October 2011:'The New York Times defines price tag attacks as incidents in which radical Jewish settlers "exact a price from local Palestinians or from the Israeli security forces for any action taken against their settlement enterprise".'Ben Schott, 'Schott's Vocab: A Miscellany of Modern Words & Phrases,' in The New York Times, 1 June 2011. The Wall Street Journal states that the term refers to "a campaign of retribution by fundamentalist Israeli youths against Palestinians in the West Bank".Joshua Mitnick, Mosque is torched in Israel, in The Wall Street Journal, 4 October 2011. Over the period from January 2012 to June 2013, Israeli police registered 788 cases of suspected price tag assaults in which 276 arrests were conducted, leading to 154 indictments.Price tag epidemic: 788 cases, 154 indictments,' at Ynet, 18 June 2013.
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.The Associated Press & Yuval Azoulay,'Settler holds knife to IDF soldier's throat in West Bank riot,' in Haaretz, 24 July 2008. 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.OCHA, 1 November 2009. 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.Ali Waked, 'Hebron burning: Settler fire injures Palestinians,' in Ynet, 4 December 2008 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.OCHA, I November, 2009.
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 to 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 three settlement outposts in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates were removed by Israeli authorities, from over 1,000 to 1,500 olive trees belonging to villagers from Tell, Madama, Burin, Asira al-Qibliya and Jit were destroyed. Cars were stoned, junctions blocked, two Palestinian motorists were injured, and six vehicles damaged near Nablus in an attack attributed by Palestinians to settlers from Yitzhar.Sheera Frenkel, Israeli settlers burn olive groves in ‘price tag’ retaliation attack, in The Times, 21 July 2009. 23 July 2009 – Connected to the events three 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.'Not much of an olive branch,', in The Economist, 15 October 2009. 9 December 2009 – The Hasan Khadr Mosque at the village of Yasuf near Salfit was burnt, with 'price tag' slogan written on the wall.Ali Waked, with Efraim Weiss, 'Settlers suspected of torching Palestinian mosque,' in Ynet, 11 December 2009. In January 2010, several settlers from the Yitzhar settlement were arrested as suspects.'Nine Settlers, Including Three Teens, Arrested For Involvement in Salfit Mosque Attack,' in International Middle East Media Center, 18 January 2010.
2010 April 2010 – Settlers torched three Palestinian vehicles in Huwara near Nablus.Saed Bannoura, 'Settler Torch Olive Orchard In Silwan,' in International Middle East Media Center, 13 May 2010. 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 three 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.Mohamad Alasmar, for the ‘price-tag’ policy,' in Jerusalem Post, 18 August 2010 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.Aviel Magnezi, 'Settlers block roads, clash with police,' (in Hebrew) [Ynet], 26 July 2010.West Bank demolitions prompt riots, arrests, 'price tag' missions, YNet 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.Mohammed Mar'i, 'Occupiers uproot olive trees in West Bank,' Arab News, 17 August 2010. 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.Ethan Bronner, Arsonists Damage a Mosque in the West Bank, in [The New York Times], 4 October 2010.Reuters, Settlers replace Korans burnt in West Bank mosque attack,' in Haaretz, 5 October 2010. 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.B'tselem, by Settlers,' 3 November 2010, 15 October 2010 – A 500-dunam olive grove by the village of Farata was firebombed by settlers from the wildcat Jewish settlement of Havat GiladAgence France-Presse, 'Israel settlers start fires amid West Bank harvest ,', 16 October 2010. 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.Joshua Bloom, 'Operation Price Tag,' in Rabbis for Human Rights, 25 October 2010. 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.Yair Altman, Price tag: Palestinian cars vandalized in Hebron.' in Ynet, 1 March 2011. 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.Ahmad Jaradat, 'Israeli Settler Violence Report: March and April 2011,' in Alternative Information Center, 12 June 2011: 'On 4 March, settlers from Shvut Rachel in the southeast Nablus District damaged around 500 olive trees belonging to families from the village of Sorra. According to the Palestinian settlement file office in the northern West Bank, "the settlers attacked in the early morning hours, damaging and uprooting about 500 olive trees. Some of the settlers also entered the village and stoned homes". These attacks are part of the settlers' "price tag" plan, announced against Palestinians in the West Bank. The plan was ostensibly launched because the Israeli army dismantled several mobile houses in some outposts and settlements in West Bank, including the outpost of Giv'at Gil'ad in the North.' 17 March 2011 – Five to seven 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.Yaakov Lappin, 'Settlers suspected of 'price tag' attack in Shiloh ,' in Jerusalem Post, 17 March 2011. Elior Levy 'Palestinian 'price tag' victim recounts attack,' in Ynet, 17 March 2011. 6 June 2011 – A mosque was defaced and damaged by Israeli settlers 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.Saed Bannoura, ['Settlers Torch Palestinian Farmlands Near Nablus,'] IMEMC 26 July 2011. 5 September 2011 – Settlers torched the mosque of Qusra, south of Nablus.Chaim Levinson & Avi Issacharoff Settlers set fire to West Bank mosque after Israel demolishes illegal structures in Migron, in Haaretz, 5 September 2011. 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.Anshel Pfeffer & Chaim Levinson, Israeli settlers vandalize IDF base in first 'price tag' act against army, in Haaretz, 7 September 2011.