Palestinian sources said that the occupiers from nearby Kedumim settlement sprayed the writing "Kahane was right" on the gravestones and painted stars of David.

Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of racist Kach party, was a member of Israeli Knesset from 1984 until his party was declared racist and banned from the Knesset in 1988. He was assassinated in New York on Nov. 5, 1990.

The Palestinian sources added that the occupiers also sprayed graffiti on the wall threatening the residents of revenge and calling them to leave the village.

Israeli forces arrived at the village and said that the incident as extremely severe.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Mohammed Hussein condemned the incident saying that the "occupiers visited Kafr Qaddoum and violated the sanctity of the graves under the escort of Israeli forces."

Hussein held the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for the desecration of the Muslims graves after "allowing the occupiers to break into the village."

He called on the Arab and Muslim nations and on international organizations to take initiatives to "curb the extreme right-wing government which has failed to restrain the radical groups from carrying deliberate provocations against the dead and living Palestinians."

"Desecrating the cemetery will be a move crossing all red lines and may provoke reactions,” Hussein warned.

The attack is the latest in so-called "price tag" attacks, intended to pressure the Israeli government away from making concessions regarding settlement building in the West Bank. The 10-month partial moratorium expired on Sept. 26.

On Wednesday, occupiers set fire to a school warehouse in the West Bank village of Al-Sawyeh, to the south of Nablus.

Israeli security forces suspect the school vandalism was part of the "price tag" effort initiated by occupiers as revenge for the demolition of structures in the settlement Bat Ayin, north of Hebron.
 
The Palestinians have halted direct talks with Israel after the latter refused to extend construction moratorium. An Arab League committee on the peace process last week supported the Palestinian's decision on suspending talks and gave the US administration, the peace mediator, one month to convince Israel to freeze settlement building.