Israeli settler family murdered

NABLUS – An attack blamed on Palestinians killed five members of an Israeli family in their beds in their West Bank settlement, sparking a huge manhunt by the Israeli army on Saturday.

Media reports said a baby girl of three months, two children aged three and 11, and their parents were all stabbed to death.Army radio said two children aged four and two had been spared and a third, a girl of 10, had discovered the massacre when she arrived home and alerted neighbours.The radio said the killer or killers had managed to get past an electric fence surrounding the settlement.One paramedic told news website Ynet one of the children still had a pulse when they arrived, but that they had been unable to resuscitate him.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the authorities would do everything possible to protect Israelis and demanded that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas punish those responsible for the murders.’Israel will act vigorously to defend the Israeli population and to punish the murderers,’ said a statement from his office.’The prime minister demands that the Palestinian Authority and its head (Abbas) find and punish the authors of this attack.’Robert Serry, special UN co-ordinator for the Middle East peace process, ‘unequivocally condemns last night’s shocking murder … and calls for those responsible to be brought to justice’, said a statement from his office.- Nampa-AFP

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