Israeli colonial settlers brutally stabbed a Palestinian worker in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, causing him serious injuries, according to Quds News Network (QNN).

Israeli media reported that a group of Israeli colonists attacked a Palestinian worker and savagely stabbed him in his entire body, causing severe injuries to the worker as he was transfered to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the occupied in the city. 

Quds News Network said that paramedics provided initial treatment to the worker and relayed that he was conscious and suffering several stab wounds.

“He was sitting there at the end of a work shift. They stabbed him in his entire body,” said the source to Walla news. “He tried running until he collapsed.”

Colonists violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the occupied West Bank.

There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in violation of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention.