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WEST BANK, (PIC)-- A Palestinian man was hospitalized Wednesday morning after Jewish settlers assaulted him during riots in Al-Khalil city in the southern West Bank.

The settlers raided several areas in the West Bank and set up military checkpoints.

Locals said the gang pummeled Palestinian man Hilal Baradhi'i near the Kiryat Arba settlement.

He was taken to the government hospital in the city for treatment.

The same morning, Israeli occupation forces also raided the city's Ras al-Joreh district at dawn and set up several checkpoints throughout the city.

Meanwhile, locals reported that an IOF aerial force including two planes and a helicopter carried out an airdrop drill on the slopes of a mountain overlooking Toubas in the northern Jordan Valley.

Palestinians said that other forces stormed villages east of Jenin without raiding the homes of civilians.

In a separate incident, a father and son were arrested in a wide-ranging search raid carried out in Talouza village in the northeast part of Nablus province. A number of houses were searched, and a gold craft worth 3,000 Jordanian dinars was stolen during the operation.

Some thirty military vehicles entered the village at 2am, locals said. The force searched around thirty homes in different corners of the village.

In one violent raid, a woman fell unconscious and was transported to a hospital in Nablus.

The force also raided an area between Talouza and Useira.

Search operations in that area have been ongoing since early morning.