Israeli Army Minister Ehud Barak is pondering a plan to compensate Palestinian victims for their loss caused by rampaging Jewish colonizers in the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli news service Ynet reported Sunday.

Barak said at a weekly cabinet meeting that he had instructed the Israeli military establishment to send appraisers and a legal committee to Hebron to examine the possibility of such an effort.

The ancient city has been haunted by colonizers’ violent attacks after Israeli occupation forces expelled some 250 colonizers from a Palestinian house earlier this month, leaving dozens of Palestinian citizens injured and many Palestinian properties damaged.

'The recent disturbances in the West Bank are an attempt by a small extreme group to undermine the authority of the state to enforce the law within its boundaries. Lawbreakers should be punished with severity,' Barak told his fellow ministers, while criticizing the judicial system for being too lenient to violent extremists.

Israeli officials have vowed to tame the radical Jewish colonizers, who clashed with Israeli forces and attacked Palestinians and their properties in apparent revenge, stressing that law and order must be restored across the region.

Israel's Supreme Court ordered on November 16 that occupants of the Hebron building  should leave within 72 hours, or the police would be authorized to force them out. The Jewish colonizers defied the order and the deadline passed without a forcible eviction, however.

Since then, radical colonizers have been flowing into the already volatile area, and tensions between them and both Palestinian citizens and Israeli occupation forces have been mounting. Israeli police has arrested tens of rioters.

On December 4, Israeli occupation forces began evicting Jewish colonizers from the building, which has been occupied by dozens of extreme Jewish colonizers since March .