Many Palestinian citizens suffered from their exposure to tear gas fumes when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked them after they finished the Friday prayer in Sur Baher town east of Jerusalem.
Hundreds of citizens flocked to Wadi Hummus neighborhood of Sur Baher town to attend the Friday khutba and prayer near the separation wall and to express their solidarity with local residents who lost their homes.
Immediately after they finished the prayer the IOF showered them with volleys of tear gas grenades and physically assaulted some of them in an attempt to force them to leave the area.
Photojournalist Iyad Hamad was reportedly injured after soldiers brutally beat him as he was covering the IOF assaults on the citizens.
The IOF also assaulted and arrested local official Hasan Brijiyeh office director of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission in Bethlehem.
