India, Dec. 24 -- Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank overnight, spraying tear gas at children and killing sheep, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. It was the latest in a surge of attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the territory in recent months.Israeli police said they arrested five settlers.

The settlers smashed a door and a window of the home, firing tear gas inside that sent three Palestinian children under the age of 4 to the hospital, said Amir Dawood, who directs an office documenting such attacks within a Palestinian governmental body called the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. He said settlers also entered the family's sheep pen, killing three sheep an...