Muslims in France are angry that a mass killer’s actions are now claimed to have been in the name of Islam, and concerned that it will stoke a racist backlash, writes Jack Moore

An 18-month-old child has been killed after suspected Jewish assailants attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank and threw fire bombs inside two homes.

Thousands of unpaid teachers have begun the Palestinian school year with a strike that shut down classrooms across the West Bank and Gaza – a backlash that is testing the beleaguered Hamas-led government’s ability to survive.

A JEWISH extremist opened fire inside a bus yesterday, killing four Israeli Arabs before being slain by an angry crowd, police said.