Israeli settlers attacked on Wednesday, 29 March 2023 a Palestinian family near the village of Al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, suffocating a child.

Local sources reported that about 12 colonial settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of the ‘Tilal Youth’ attacked the Palestinian family of Nayef Ka’abneh while they were safely sleeping in their home.

Israeli settlers fired a barrage of poisonous gas bombs toward the Palestinain family home, severely suffocating their child Bashar, sources added.

Sources pointed out that the settlers also broke the windows of the house and its contents.

Israeli settlers’ attacks have escalated recently against the Palestinian citizens’ own lands including attacking the Palestinian shepherds, preventing them from reaching their lands.

In last February, Israeli settlers carried out 151 attacks on Palestinians and their own property in the occupied West Bank, causing property damage, and injuries to Palestinian residents, according to United Nations reports. 

More than 650,000 colonial settlers were distributed among 164 illegal settlements and 124 outposts built on the stolen lands of occuiped West Bank and Jerusalem. 

The West Bank and Jerusalem lands are occupied territories based on International law due to this all Israeli settlement-building activities there are illegal.