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Media Summary

13-year-old girl killed in her bed by Palestinian terrorist

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The Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Metro, Sun, Daily Express and i all cover the deadly terror attack in which a Palestinian attacker broke into a family home in the West Bank community of Kiryat Arba and stabbed a 13-year-old girl multiple times as she slept, murdering her in her bed.

Security forces quickly arrived on the scene and shot dead the terrorist, who first stabbed a security officer.  The assailant was a teenage resident of a nearby Palestinian village.

The Telegraph quotes the UK Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey, who condemned the terror attack and said that there can be “no possible justification” for such an act. At least 38 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks since a wave of violence began in October.

The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Telegraph, i, Evening Standard, Daily Mail and Daily Express all cover comments made yesterday by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at the release of a report into antisemitism in the party, following a string of recent incidents involving party members. At the event, Corbyn appeared to draw an analogy between Israel and ISIS.  He said: “Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.”

Meanwhile, the Telegraph online covers a report in the US media, which claims that the United States is seeking a more formal military alliance with Russia in Syria in order to more effectively tackle some of the Islamist terror groups active in the country, as Syria’s civil war continues to rage.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom is the murder yesterday of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffe Ariel in Kiryat Arba. Several dailies lead with comments made by her mother at her funeral where she said: “Farewell, my princess.”

The dailies also report that another terror attack took place in the coastal city of Netanya. A Palestinian man from the nearby West Bank city of Tulkarm stabbed a man in his forties and a woman in her sixties in Netanya’s market area. Both were injured, but not critically, while the terrorist was shot dead at the scene. Yediot Ahronot says that the daughter of the injured woman is set to be married today.

Israel Radio news says that at an event at the US Ambassador’s residence, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin and the US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro all stressed their condemnation and revulsion at the terror attacks. They emphasised the joint US-Israel position and shared values on matters of terror.

Israel Radio news also reports that police in Jerusalem are on high alert and will deploy from early around the Old City, in advance of the last Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.