Israeli policemen inspect a house after it was torched in a suspected attack by Jewish settlers killing an 18-month-old Palestinian child, his four-year-old brother and parents were wounded, according... (Associated Press) 
 
 DUMA, West Bank (AP) — Suspected Jewish assailants attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank early Friday and torched two homes, hurling fire bombs inside and setting off a blaze that killed a toddler and critically wounded his 4-year-old brother and parents. 
 
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident a "terror attack," while the Palestinians blamed Israel for allowing such violence to go unchecked in the West Bank. 
 
 According to the Israeli military, the suspects entered the village of Duma, near the city of Nablus, where they set the homes ablaze and scrawled graffiti, including "Long live the Messiah," ''revenge" and "price tag" and then fled the scene. 
 
 The slain child was identified as one-and-a-half year old Ali Dawabsheh. His four-year-old brother and parents were seriously hurt, according to Gassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official from the Nablus area. 
 
 Daghlas said Jewish settlers broke the window of a house and flung a fire bomb inside, "causing a quick and huge fire." The Israeli military said three people were critically wounded and one was slightly injured. The critically wounded were taken to Israeli hospitals for treatment, the military said. 
 
 The interior walls of the one-floor home were blackened and still radiated heat as Israeli police surveyed the scene later on Friday morning. A brown couch was covered in white ash as charred debris lay strewn around the property. A second house nearby, which was empty, was also set on fire. 
 
 The violence touched at the heart of Palestinian fears that such attacks by militant Jewish settlers in the West Bank go unpunished and are allowed by Israel to continue, although Israel says it does its best to track down assailants. Palestinian officials blamed Israel for the attack. 
 
 "The settlers are committing their crimes under the protection of Netanyahu's government. Netanyahu's government provides the settlers all they need and oppress the Palestinian people," said Mahmoud al-Aloul, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. 
 
 Inside the torched home, relatives scraped through the ash and soot to salvage any belongings. They found a partly burned picture of the killed child and his bottle, still one-third full of milk. 
 
 Mohammed Ibrahim Dawabsheh, a neighbor, said he saw the mother running out of the house on fire and then covered her with a sheet to try to extinguish her flaming body. His son, Ibrahim, said he saw two masked men flee the scene. Another neighbor, Mohammed Dawabsheh, said he tried to push into the blaze to save the child but the flames were too strong. 
 
 "I never imagined that this could happen, that someone could come and burn people alive while they are sleeping," said Hassan Dawabsheh, the slain child's uncle. "I don't know what those people were thinking. What do they have inside their hearts and minds?" 
 
 The Israeli military said it sent troop reinforcements to the West Bank, fearing the incident could trigger unrest. Hamas, the militant Islamic group that rules Gaza, called for a day of rage over the incident. 
 
 Jewish extremists have for years attacked Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches and even Israeli military bases in opposition to what they see as the Israeli government's favorable policies toward the Palestinians, although it is rare for anyone to be killed in such attacks. 
 
 Friday's incident comes after Israel this week demolished homes in a West Bank settlement built without prior authorization. Israel shortly after announced plans for new settler homes in the same settlement and elsewhere. 
 
 Critics say police have been slow to apprehend the Jewish assailants and Palestinians say the military has failed to protect them from attacks by militant Jewish settlers in the West Bank. 
 
 The attacks, known as "price tag," have been condemned across the Israeli political spectrum and condemnations came swiftly Friday, with Netanyahu issuing a stern statement against the violence. 
 
 "I am shocked over this reprehensible and horrific act. This is an act of terrorism in every respect. The State of Israel takes a strong line against terrorism regardless of who the perpetrators are," he said. 
 
 Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner called the incident "nothing short of a barbaric act of terrorism." 
 
 Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said Israel would not allow "Jewish terrorists" to carry out such acts. 
 
 "We will not allow Jewish terrorists to harm the lives of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria," he said in a statement, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name. "We will fight against them firmly and with all means and tools at our disposal." 
 
 Meanwhile, Israeli police said they would restrict entrance to Friday prayers at a Jerusalem mosque, permitting only male worshippers over the age of 50. There were no restrictions on women. Police said the decision was not necessarily related to the West Bank incident and comes as police received word that Palestinian youth at the mosque planned to cause disturbances. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Tia Goldenberg contributed to this report from Tel Aviv, Israel. ||||| "We must fight terrorism together regardless of which side it comes from," Netanyahu said, according to the statement. Israeli security forces had been ordered to use "all measures to locate the murderers," it added. 
 
 The mother of the slain child was being treated for burns on 90 percent of her body, hospital officials told NBC News earlier. Israeli officials named the slain child as Ali Dawabsheh and said his four-year-old brother was in intensive care. His father was also reported to have been injured. 
 
 Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the "Price Tag" slogan used in the past by extremist Israelis was daubed on the walls of the family home that had been torched in the village of Duma, which is located near the West Bank city of Nablus. 
 
 "This is a suspected attack with nationalist motives," Samri said. It was the worst attack by Israeli extremists since a Palestinian teen was burned to death in a retribution slaying for three Israelis killed by abductors a year ago. 
 
 Palestinian PM at site of #WestBank attack - 'we hold Israeli government responsible. It is guilty of incitement' pic.twitter.com/3X6BYocAT5 — Geraint Vincent (@GeraintITV) July 31, 2015 
 
 Speaking on Army Radio, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said: "A nation who had children burned in the Holocaust should do soul-searching if from the same nation people come out and burn other people." 
 
 Dan Shapiro, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, also highlighted Thursday's knife attack at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem. 
 
 "Two days, two terrible acts of violence and hate," he wrote on his Facebook page. "I join with so many Israeli leaders and citizens who have condemned the hateful stabbing attacks at the Jerusalem Pride March and the murderous terrorist arson in Duma." 
 
 An investigation was underway to bring the "terrorists" to justice, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said in a statement. 
 
 This attack against Palestinian civilians is a barbaric act of terrorism. #IDF has heightened efforts to locate terroists responsible #Duma — Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) July 31, 2015 
 
 1/2 Initial findings suggest that around 0400 this morning at least 2 masked terrorists entered the village of #Duma. — Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) July 31, 2015 
 
 2/2 They approached two houses, sprayed graffiti on the walls in Hebrew, broke windows & hurled fire bombs inside setting the houses ablaze. — Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) July 31, 2015 
 
 The "Price Tag" group has been blamed for a string of mosque torchings in the West Bank in the past few years, often in retribution for Israeli actions against illegally built settlements. 
 
 Israel tore down two illegal structures in the Beit El settlement earlier this week. 
 
 Palestinian Prime Minister Romi Hamdallah accused Israeli politicians of "incitement," adding: "We hold the Israeli government responsible for the attack."
– Firebombs exploded in two West Bank homes this morning, igniting a blaze that killed an 18-month-old Palestinian boy and severely wounded his 4-year-old brother and parents in what Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu quickly labeled "an act of terrorism in every respect," reports NBC News. Jewish settlers are suspected, notes the AP; the assailants scrawled graffiti messages including "Long live the Messiah," ''revenge," and "price tag." "This is a suspected attack with nationalist motives," says a police rep, who notes the latter slogan has been used previously by Israeli extremists. The scene was horrific, with neighbors describing the dead boy's mother fleeing the home with her body on fire and attempts at rescue foiled by too-strong flames. All but 10% of her body was reportedly burned. "I never imagined that this could happen, that someone could come and burn people alive while they are sleeping," said the boy's uncle. "I don't know what those people were thinking. What do they have inside their hearts and minds?"