Fierce clashes burst out on Saturday evening between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank provinces of Salfit and al-Khalil.
According to eyewitnesses Palestinian anti-occupation youths took to Salfit streets as they spoke out against the U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Heavily-armed occupation patrols suddenly rolled into the area and attacked the protesters with randomly-discharged spates of rubber bullets and teargas canisters.
Several Palestinian protesters have also been left injured in violent confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces near the entrance to the Fawar refugee camp south of al-Khalil province.
The Israeli soldiers showered the area with barrages of teargas canisters and sound bombs resulting in several suffocation cases.
On Friday four Palestinians were fatally shot by the occupation army and over 560 others injured in clashes across 70 flashpoints with the Israeli forces in the West Bank Occupied Jerusalem and the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Tension has reached a zenith across the occupied Palestinian territories after Trump recognized in a Wednesday speech from the White House Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and pledged to transfer the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the historic city—home to Muslims’ third holiest site al-Aqsa Mosque.
