A Palestinian child was injured in his leg today in an attack by hardcore Israeli settlers, guarded by army, on vehicles and homes in the Old City of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
WAFA correspondent said scores of armed Israeli settlers embarked on a rampage attacking Palestinians’ homes and vehicles at Shuhada Street in the Old City, injuring a Palestinian child, Emran Jaber, with a stone in his leg. The child was hospitalized as a result.
The rampaging settlers also attacked and vandalized several parked vehicles before an Israeli army force arrived at the scene to secure their way back. Confrontations erupted between the Israeli occupation forces and local Palestinian residents in the aftermath of the attack.
Israeli settler fanatics also shouted profanities at Palestinians as they passed through the Israeli military checkpoint at Shuhada Street in Hebron’s Old City, threatening them with forced displacement and with more assaults.
The city of Hebron is home to roughly 200,000 Palestinians and about 800 notoriously aggressive Israeli settlers who live in colonial compounds in the heart of the city, heavily guarded by Israeli troops.
In February 2019, Israel expelled the only international monitors protecting Hebron’s Palestinians from the 800 heavily guarded settlers, one of whom committed the 1994 massacre that triggered their deployment.
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency