Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right center, paid condolences to the family of the late Hallel Yaffa Ariel. He promised the strengthen the settlement were Ariel lived. Photo: Twitter.

During a Friday condolence call to the Ariel family, whose daughter was stabbed to death a day earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to strengthen the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba where the Ariels reside.

Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian in her West Bank home on Thursday morning. Ariel was sleeping when the Palestinian assailant, identified as Mohammed Tra’ayra, 19, broke into her house and stabbed her, after jumping over the perimeter fence of the Kiryat Arba settlement.

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