Israeli settler fanatics today stormed Jaber neighborhood in the old city of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, where they attacked Palestinian civilians and pepper-sprayed a teenager causing him burns in the face.

Aref Jaber, a local anti-settlement activist, said that the rampaging settlers physically assaulted local Palestinian residents and shouted profanities at them. He added that a teenager sustained burns in the face after being pepper-sprayed by the attacking settlers.

The city of Hebron is home to roughly 160,000 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 early 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.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by the Israeli occupation authorities.