HEBRON– Several Palestinians Monday evening sustained injuries in a settler attack in the city of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that a group of armed settlers, under military protection, assaulted Palestinians in Tal Rumeida neighborhood and Ash-Shuhada Street, pelting them with stones and empty bottles and spewing pepper spray in their faces, causing several to suffocate.
All the suffocation cases received treatment at the scene.
The Palestinian neighborhood is located in the Israeli-controlled area of the old town, known as H2, where several hundred extremist Jewish settlers are based. Israel heavily restricts movement and activity of Palestinians in H2 area while allowing the settlers free movement and access.
The city of Hebron, which houses the Ibrahimi Mosque, is home to roughly 160,000 Palestinian Muslims and about 800 notoriously aggressive Israeli settlers who live in compounds heavily guarded by Israeli troops.
Israel has expelled the only international monitors protecting Hebron’s Palestinians from 800 heavily guarded settlers, one of whom committed the 1994 massacre that triggered their deployment.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency