West Bank, ALRAY - Israeli colonial settlers violently assaulted Tuesday evening a Palestinian family in the occupied central West Bank city of Ramallah.

According to local sources, around a dozen members of the "hilltop youth" settler colonial militia brutally attacked the family of Nayef Kaabneh while they were asleep in their home in Taybeh village east of Ramallah.

The Israeli colonial settlers attacked Kaabneh's son with tear gas and pepper spray, causing him to suffocate.

During the attack, the Israeli colonial settlers ransacked the home, made of tin sheets, and destroyed its windows.

Israeli colonial settlers have recently escalated their attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied West Bank as perpetrators are rarely held to account by the Israeli occupation authorities.