OCHA warns from "Israeli" settlers "price tag" tactic

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday publicized a report listing Palestinian communities that are especially vulnerable to "price tag."
It is a new and effective "Israeli" settler tactic known as the "price tag": if the Government sends police or soldiers to dismantle an outpost that is being built, the settlers make the Palestinian civilians pay the price. 

Masked "Israeli" youths vandalize Palestinian buildings, threatening Palestinian population and spreading fear, such attacks have also included rock-throwing and setting fire to Palestinian property. 

The document includes 83 villages, hamlets and neighborhoods that appear to be particularly vulnerable to penalizing attacks by settlers in response to army operations to dismantle illegal structures built by "Israeli" residents in Dafa [the West Bank]. 

According to the report, "the 'price tag' strategy involves the exertion of systematic, widespread and indiscriminate violence against Palestinian civilians, following attempts by the "Israeli" authorities to evacuate settlement outposts. 

OCHA warned that the use of the "price tag" policy by the settlers might become far more extensive and violent.. 

"Price tag" incidents have been violent and caused harm to Palestinians and their crops. For example, on July 20, Settlers set fire to more than 1,000 olive trees belonging to five Palestinian communities, blocked several junctions and threw rocks at Palestinian cars, causing severe injury to two drivers and damage to six vehicles. On July 23, more than 20 armed settlers entered the nearby Palestinian village of Asira el-Kibliyeh and threw rocks at residents. 

"Israeli" Settlers also rampaged through Al Khalil [Hebron] on December 4, 2008, after the army forced settlers to leave a building that they had occupied and claimed to own. settlers from all over the Dafa [West Bank] who had come to Al Khalil [Hebron] to prevent the evacuation, attacked Palestinians in various parts of the city, injuring six Palestinians and setting fire to vehicles, agricultural fields, houses and a mosque. 

The OCHA report found that at least 22 communities were at high risk of attack, while 61 were at moderate risk. A total of 187,000 residents were at risk of attack.