Calls in air for appropriate response to toddler’s burning

Hamas Movement called for “an appropriate response” to the killing of a Palestinian toddler and the injury of three of his family members early Friday at the hands of Israeli settlers in Dura town south of Nablus.

Spokesman for the group Houssam Badran held the Israeli government "fully responsible" for the death of a Palestinian toddler in an arson attack by "creating a culture of hate and incitement" against Palestinians even those who are at an early age.

Such heinous crimes would only increase resistance operations against Israeli settlers and forces at any time and everywhere, he said.

Hamas’s spokesperson called on Palestinians in the West Bank to take to the streets in defense of al-Aqsa Mosque and in protest against the settlers’ arson attack.

He also called on the PA to stop persecuting resistance elements in the West Bank and to immediately release all political detainees.

Along the same line, Fatah movement considered, in a statement issued following the arson attack, the burning and killing of a Palestinian toddler as a crime against humanity.

"We hold the Israeli government headed by Benyamin Netanyahu fully responsible for the brutal assassination of the toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha," the statement said.

The statement pointed to the recent settlement approvals by the Israeli government.

Earlier Friday, a Palestinian toddler was burned to death and three members of his family were left wounded following an arson attack by a horde of extremist Israeli settlers on the family’s home in Nablus’ southern town of Duma.