Jerusalem police on Tuesday, 11 Cheshvan, apprehended a 21-year-old male from the Jerusalem area who they say admitted to a number of so-called ‘price tag’ attacks against left-wing and Arab targets.

According to Israel Radio reports, the suspect admitted to spray painting “death to Arabs” and “price tag” in a number of stances, including a train station in the Shuafat area of the capital, on a scout’s facility in Mevaseret Tzion, and a Peace Now office in the German Colony of the capital. It also reportedly admitted to placing a bomb in one of the locations because he “hates leftists and Arabs”.

In other related events, two residents of Yosh (Yehuda-Shomron) were taken into custody on Tuesday after entering the Arab community of Hirbat Zekaryia in the Gush Etzion district, entering the yard of a home, and spraying an unspecified substance in the eyes of an 8-year-old boy. According to eyewitness reports quoted by Walla News, two men who appeared to be Orthodox Jews entered the village in a vehicle with Israeli license plates. The boy was playing soccer in the yard with a 10-year-old brother when the incident occurred. One of the men grabbed the youth while the other sprayed him in the face. The substance is believed to be a pepper spray.

The boy was transported by a Red Crescent ambulance to a PA (Palestinian Authority) hospital in Beit Lechem. Shai district police are investigating. The boy’s condition is described as light.

Addressing price tag attacks, Minister of Education Gideon Saar today called the attacks a “cancerous tumor” that must be removed from our midst.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)