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Palestinian officials say Israel is "fully responsible" for the death of an infant in an arson attack blamed on Jewish settlers in the West Bank, writes the BBC.
The 18-month-old boy was killed in the night-time attack on two homes in the village of Duma. His parents and brother suffered serious injuries. Slogans in Hebrew, including the word "revenge", were found sprayed on a wall of one of the firebombed houses.
Israel's prime minister called the attack "reprehensible and horrific".
"This is an act of terrorism in every respect. The State of Israel takes a strong line against terrorism regardless of the perpetrators," Benjamin Netanyahu said in a tweet.
However the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), which dominates the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, said it held the Israeli government "fully responsible for the brutal assassination" of the child, Ali Saad Dawabsha.
"This is a direct consequence of decades of impunity given by the Israeli government to settler terrorism," it said.
This would be the worst attack by Israeli assailants since a Palestinian teenager was torched to death in Jerusalem a year ago, writes Reuters.
That followed the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinian militants in the West Bank. The Israeli military boosted forces in the area to search for the suspects, described by a spokesman as "two masked terrorists", and prevent any escalation in violence.
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas called for revenge. Ibrahim Dawabsheh, a Duma resident, said he heard people shouting for help from the house and rushed to it. "I saw two masked men outside," he told Reuters.
He went to get help and when he returned they had gone. "We found the parents outside with burns, they said there was another son in the house. We brought him out and then they said there was another boy inside, but we couldn't reach the bedroom because of the fire.
He was left inside until rescue forces came," Dawabsheh told Reuters.
Footage from the house showed blackened walls and singed family photos scattered across charred belongings.
