Baby dies in West Bank terror attack

Suspected Jewish attackers torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, killing an 18-month-old toddler and injuring three family members. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, described it as terrorism.

The house in Duma, a village near the city of Nablus, had its windows smashed and rooms fire-bombed shortly before dawn, as the family slept, the military and witnesses said. Graffiti in Hebrew, reading ‘revenge’, was scrawled outside.

Both the child’s parents and his four-year-old brother were badly hurt. They were taken by helicopter for treatment in an Israeli hospital, officials said. A second house in the village was also set ablaze, but no-one was at home.