Palestinian terrorists unleashed this year’s deadliest attack against Israelis on Friday night. A Jewish family, including three children, was stabbed to death after their attackers sneaked into their home in the Itamar settlement near Nablus. Two other children who were present in the home escaped harm, and a third family member was out of the house when the attack occurred. The ages of the three children murdered were 12, 3 and 3 months.

The terrorist wing of Fatah—the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades—has claimed responsibility for the attack.

In response to the brutal act, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved construction in other Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Three hundred to five hundred homes will be built within the existing settlements. As Netanyahu explained at the funeral of the murdered family, “They shoot and we build.”

Netanyahu was disappointed by how long it took the international community to condemn the appalling attack.

“I have noticed that several countries that always hasten to the UN Security Council in order to condemn Israel, the state of the Jews, for planning a house in some locality, or for laying some tiles somewhere, have been dilatory in sharply condemning the murder of Jewish infants,” he said in a broadcast statement. “I expect them to issue such condemnations immediately, without balances, without understandings, without justifications.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waited until Monday to condemn the attack as a “despicable, immoral and inhuman act.” This statement, given in an interview with Israel Radio, came a day after the Palestinian Authority named a town square after Dalal al-Mughrabi—a man who is responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks in Israel’s history. Mughrabi was the leader of a bus hijacking that resulted in the deaths of 37 Israelis back in 1978.

The Israeli prime minister was quick to point out that although Abbas’s statement went out over Israeli media, it needed to be sent out on Palestinian radio.

Continue to watch Israel, as Bible prophecy shows tensions in the West Bank will continue to escalate, culminating in the Palestinian takeover of East Jerusalem.