Stabbing of five Israelis abominable, says Abbas

PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas described as “abominable” a weekend stabbing attack which killed five Israelis, including a baby, in their beds in a West Bank settlement.

“This act was abominable, inhuman and immoral,” the Palestinian leader said in an interview in Arabic with Israeli public radio days after the grisly murder at the Itamar settlement near the northern city of Nablus.

Abbas said Palestinian security forces had joined forces with Israel to hunt down the killer or killers who were still at large.