NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli extremists sprayed racist slogans on houses in a northern West Bank village overnight, a PA official said.

Ghassan Doughlas said a number of settlers tried to enter al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village after midnight, and some were stopped by local guard committees.

However, a number of the group had already daubed anti-Arab slogans on residents' homes, he said.

In May 2010, settlers torched the village mosque in a night raid.

Also on Tuesday, extremists sprayed racist anti-Arab slogans on the walls of a mixed school in Beit Safafa, East Jerusalem and "Death to Christians" in Hebrew on a Jerusalem monastery.