RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Suspected Jewish assailants attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank early Friday and torched two homes, killing a young child and critically wounding at least three people, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military called the incident a “terror attack.”
According to the military, the suspects entered the village of Duma, near the city of Nablus, where they set the homes ablaze and scrawled graffiti, including “Long live the Messiah” and “price tag.”
The slain child was identified as one-and-a-half year old Ali Dawabsheh.
Ghasan Gaghlas, a Palestinian official from the area, said Jewish settlers broke the window of a house and flung a burning object inside, “causing a quick and huge fire.