Anger and frustration over killing of Palestinian baby

The child’s parents and four-year-old brother were seriously injured in the attack, suspected to have been carried out by Jewish settlers.

Netanyahu also visited 4-year-old Ahmed Sa’ed, who suffered burns over 60 percent of his body in the arson attack that killed his little brother. “We are determined to vigorously fight manifestations of hate, fanaticism and terrorism from whatever side”, he said at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday morning.

Racist graffiti and anti-Arab slogans were sprayed across both homes reading “revenge” and “long live the Messiah” in Hebrew.

Netanyahu called the attack a terrorist act and vowed to catch the assailants.

The youth died at a West Bank hospital, just hours after the clash with Israeli troops near Ramallah, said Palestinian hospital officials.

In the Gaza Strip the same day, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border fence in the northern part of the coastal territory, Palestinian medical officials said.

More than 200 protesters marched near the village of Douma, where the arson took place, on Saturday; there were reports of demonstrations in the West Bank village of Kadum, the Israeli-Arab town of Umm al-Fahm, and near the West Bank settlement of Esh Kedosh also on Saturday.

DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: Israelis demonstrated throughout the country this evening to protest two recent attacks – one in Jerusalem on Thursday at the city’s annual Gay Pride Parade, where an ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed six people, and yesterday’s attack that killed a 1-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian baby named Ali Dawabsheh.

For decades, the Israeli military has engaged in the policy of “administrative detention” of Palestinians under the auspices of national security.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas labeled the attack a “crime against humanity and a war crime.” He has threatened to take the matter to the global Criminal Court.

Israeli officials say the Jewish zealots elude discovery by operating in small networks that are hard for informants to penetrate, avoiding electronic communications that might be monitored, and clamming up when detained for interrogation.

The European Union called on Israel to show “zero tolerance” for settler violence, while Jordan, strongly condemned the attack.

“We must put out the flames of incitement before they destroy us all“, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said at a Jerusalem rally.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called “for the perpetrators of this terrorist act to be promptly brought to justice”.

“We have to look to be neighbours in a good way and to believe that the path to peace is the right one”, said Ziad Zabateen, a Palestinian from Bethlehem.