A Palestinian car in east Jerusalem was torched and racist slogans were scrawled on it early Sunday, police said, in what bore the hallmarks of a Jewish extremist hate attack. Police said the incident took place in Umm Tuba, with perpetrators writing "Death to Arabs" on the car and "administrative revenge" next to the vehicle owner's home. Sunday's incident shared similarities with previous attacks referred to as "price tag" attacks, a euphemism for Jewish nationalist-motivated hate crimes that generally target Palestinian or Arab Israeli property, but have also hit Christian and Muslim places of worship. Suspected Jewish extremists on July 31 torched a Palestinian home in West Bank village Duma, killing an 18-month-old boy and fatally injuring his parents, following which Israeli authorities cracked down on Israeli extremists, with "price tag" attacks somewhat abating since. Meanwhile, a Palestinian stabbed and moderately wounded an Israeli in the West Bank on Sunday before fleeing the scene, the army said. A military spokeswoman said the attack occurred after an Israeli motorist exited his vehicle because stones were being thrown at it. "The Palestinian then attacked the Israeli, stabbing him in the chest, before fleeing the scene," she said. The Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem said they received a 58-year-old man who sustained a stab wound to the chest as well as a head wound from a stone, noting the attack took place near the southern West Bank settlement of Metzad. Palestinian security sources said a 20-year-old man was in serious condition after being "shot by a settler while harvesting olives in Sair," which is a short distance from Metzad. There was no immediate official word on whether the two incidents were linked. In a related development, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an agreement to put 24-hour security cameras around occupied Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound was in Israel's interest. In remarks relayed by his office Netanyahu said the cameras would serve "firstly, to refute the claim Israel is violating the status quo (and) secondly, to show where the provocations are really coming from, and prevent them in advance." Israel has been accused of seeking to change longstanding rules that govern the holy site. US Secretary of State John Kerry said after talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II — whose country is the custodian of the site — that the surveillance measure would be a "game changer in discouraging anybody from disturbing the sanctity of the holy site." And Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said the cameras "will indeed make a difference and a very strong difference at that." "I heard the Jordanian foreign minister's positive reaction," said Netanyahu.
