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)