IMREISH (AFP) - Vandals scrawled graffiti on a mosque in the southern West Bank in an apparent “price tag” hate crime, an AFP correspondent and Israeli police spokesman said on Wednesday. According to spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, when unknown assailants sprayed the words “Price tag Migron” in Hebrew on the exterior wall of the mosque in Imreish village south of Hebron. “An investigation was opened on Tuesday when units examined the scene. No damage was caused to the mosque,” Rosenfeld said. Meanwhile, a court in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth has sentenced a local imam to three years in prison for incitement and supporting “terrorism,” court documents showed.Nazem Abu Slim, the outspoken imam of the Shihab al-Din mosque, was arrested in October 2010 on suspicion of having ties with militants and was convicted in April on charges of “incitement to violence and terror, and supporting a terror group.”On Tuesday, Nazareth Magistrates Court sentenced him to three years in prison.At the request of Abu Slim’s lawyer, the jail term will begin on November 4, to enable the defence time to file an appeal.