18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli troops during protest dies

On Saturday morning, Palestinians and Jewish settlers clashed near the village of Kusra in the northern West Bank, trading volleys of stones until the Israeli army declared the area a closed military zone.

The arsonists scrawled a Jewish star and Hebrew graffiti on the house reading “Revenge!” and “Long live the Messiah king”.

An 18-month-old child was reportedly burnt to death in an arson attack allegedly carried out by Jewish settlers in West Bank.

The injured were flown to an Israeli hospital where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited one of the toddler’s brothers, who he said suffered burns over 60 percent of his body.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the incident a “war crime”.

Ramallah – A Palestinian teenager who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli soldiers during clashes on the West Bank has died, Palestinian medics said on Saturday.

In east Jerusalem, around 10 Palestinians were wounded in clashes on Friday night with Israeli police, Palestinian sources said.

“I spent years raising him, and now I am so raging”, his mother, Samar Khayatt, said.

The killing took place at a time of soaring tensions in the West Bank, driven in part by radical Jewish settlers prepared to defy their own government.

The house at Kafr Duma was destroyed by fire, apparently as the family slept inside, and Israeli security forces were at the scene.

The White House said on Friday it condemned the “vicious” arson attack.

A family relative and next door neighbor who witnessed the torching told Israeli media he saw two masked men standing next to the house.

The UN believes that there has been at least 120 attacks by Israeli settlers since the start of 2015.

Jewish extremists have for years attacked Palestinian property, mosques, churches and even Israeli military bases in opposition to what they see as the Israeli government’s favourable policies toward the Palestinians.

“This is the effect of a culture of hate funded and incentivized by the Israeli government and the impunity granted by the worldwide community”, Erekat added. A Palestinian infant burned to death as a result.

Palestinian officials said they held Israel “fully responsible”. “I have instructed the security forces to use all means at our disposal to capture the killers and bring them to justice as soon as possible”.

All have been strongly condemned across the Israeli political spectrum, although the recent spate of attacks has raised fears that a radicalised and violent ultraconservative fringe is growing from within the country’s hard-line national-religious camp.

In a press statement on Friday, Al Azhar said such heinous crimes occur only with the blessing of the Israeli occupation authorities that incite further abuses against unarmed civilians.