Toddler dies in attack linked to militant

Jewish settlers
By Joel Greenberg
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Jerusalem — A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and members of his family were critically wounded on Friday when their home in the West Bank was firebombed by attackers believed to be extremist Jewish settlers, the police and army said.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the killing an act of terrorism, and Israeli security forces went on alert as Palestinian protesters clashed with troops in several locations in the West Bank. In Washington, the Obama administration condemned the incident, describing it as a “vicious terrorist attack.”
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Reflecting concerns about a slide into further violence, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin issued a statement in Arabic appealing for restraint and expressing pain that “members of my people chose the path of terror and lost their humanity.”
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In an unusual gesture, both Netanyahu and Rivlin visited an Israeli hospital where two of the victims were being treated.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the attack would be brought before the International Criminal Court, where the Palestinians have threatened to lodge war crimes complaints against Israel for its settlement policies and last summer’s war in Gaza
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