And it's no accident. If you read the article, you would know that the people in the adjoining houses were not allowed to leave. So you either die in the street for breaking curfew or die in your home.

Reminds me of the treatment of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

What is at work here is explained by the following fundamentalist belief:
"Gush Emunim rabbis have continually reiterated that Jews who killed Arabs should not be punished, [e.g.]... Relying on the Code of Maimonides and the Halacha, Rabbi Ariel stated, 'A Jew who killed a non-Jew is exempt from human judgement and has not violated the [religious] prohibition of murder'..The significance here is most striking when the broad support, both direct and indirect, for Gush Emunim is considered. About one-half of Israel's Jewish population supports Gush Emunim."
-- Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky's "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel"