By KUNA,
Ramallah : Israeli settlers escalated their attacks on Palestinians in Hebron (Al-Khalil), south of the West Bank.
A group of Israelis attacked Palestinian families living in the heart of the city, throwing stones at their homes.
Palestinians in Al-Khalil said hundreds of Israelis demonstrated Monday midnight, attacked Palestinian homes, damaging tens of them, and fired shots randomly, injuring two children.
Israeli settlers aggressively attacked Palestinians in the past days as response to a decision of a higher court in Israel to evacuate a number of settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied.
The settlers refused to leave the house of Al-Rajbi family and threatened of further escalating clashes with the Palestinians if they were forced to leave the home by the army.
Palestinians in Al-Khalil said the settlers attacked Palestinian homes with rocks and batons, injuring an Israeli soldier.
The Israeli Army occupied several Palestinian homes and turned them to military barracks to protect settlers who took hold of Arab homes.
Earlier, four Palestinians were bit by a dog that Israeli settlers released on them in Al-Khalil.