May 1, 2013

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Clashes continued in the West Bank between Israeli settlers and Palestinians more than a day after the murder of a Jewish man by a Palestinian attacker.

Jewish settlers continued to throw rocks at passing Palestinian cars, and settlers and Palestinians threw rocks at each other in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, according to reports.

Late Tuesday night, the words “Price Tag,” were sprayed on a house in a Palestinian village near Ramallah, and five cars there were damaged by rock throwing, the Jerusalem Post reported.

“Price tag” refers to the strategy that extremist settlers and their supporters have adopted to exact retribution for settlement freezes and demolitions or Palestinian attacks on Jews.

Eviatar Borovsky, 31, a father of five from the Yitzhar settlement, was killed Tuesday morning as he waited for a bus at the Tapuach Junction. The stabber then took Borovsky’s gun and began shooting at Border Guard officers. The officers returned fire, injuring the Palestinian, who was taken to an Israeli hospital to be treated for his wounds.

Following the attack, a group of Yitzhar residents set fields on fire and threw stones at a Palestinian school bus, Haaretz reported.

At least 15 Jewish settlers have been arrested for violence against Palestinians since the murder.

Several hundred people attended Borovsky’s funeral. Later, a photo of one of his young sons hugging his lifeless body draped in a prayer shawl went viral on Facebook,

In January, a 17-year-old Israeli was stabbed at the same junction.
 

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