Little Ali Dawabsheh was just 18-months-old when his home was torched in a suspected attack by Jewish settlers in Duma village near the West Bank city of Nablus.
The military explained that attackers threw Molotov cocktails - better known to many as ‘fire bombs’ - at the houses.
The assailants signed their work with a spray-painted message that read “Revenge!” in Hebrew, next to scrawled image of a Star of David.
Ali, along with his four-year-old brother and parents, were amongst those caught up in the terrifying arson attack.
The baby’s charred body was recovered from the wreckage by Palestinian ambulance driver Yousef Dariha.
He told local press: “I don’t want to close my eyes because I will see the image of that baby again.
“I have seen all sorts of terrible death and terrible injuries in my job. This one broke my heart.”
The shocking attack comes shortly after Israeli soldiers and police demolished homes which had been built in a West bank settlement - without permits - on private Palestinian land.
It is thought that it was carried out by arsonists seeking revenge against actions carried out against them, either by Israeli soldiers or Palestinian civilians.
Both Israeli and Palestinian leaders condemned the attack.
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, speaking out on behalf of Israel, insisted that they will 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 Massan Daghlas, a Palestinian official from the Nablus area, added that more needs to be done to stop any more of these ‘price tag’ attacks from being carried out.
He said: “Setters in the Nablus area are very aggressive.
“They never stop attacking Palestinians in their villages and the Israeli government needs to put an end to these aggressions.”
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports 120 incidents of “settler-related violence” in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2015.