The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday injured a number of Palestinians and arrested others during peaceful demonstrations in different West Bank areas.
At least 15 Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and dozens choked on tear gas during clashes with the IOF soldiers who stormed Jalazone refugee camp in Ramallah.
Local sources said that the IOF closed the main entrance to the camp prevented the Palestinian citizens from entering or leaving the area and heavily fired tear gas bombs at Palestinian homes.
The IOF further broke into several Palestinian shops and seized their surveillance camera recordings.
Meanwhile in Kafr Qaddum the IOF violently quelled a peaceful demonstration calling for opening the village’s road that has been closed for over 15 years in favor of Kedumim settlement.
Popular resistance coordinator Murad Shtewi said that the IOF heavily fired live ammunition rubber-coated metal bullets and stun grenades at the demonstrators injuring one of them.
According to local residents the IOF arrested three Palestinians during a raid on Kafr Ni’ma village in Ramallah that witnessed heavy firing of live ammunition at the Palestinians.
Dozens of Palestinians suffered breathing difficulties when the IOF attacked anti-settlement demonstrations in Bil’in and Ni’lin villages in Ramallah with tear gas canisters and stun grenades the PIC reporter said.
The IOF quelled another march in the neighboring Beit Sira village that called for releasing the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs Yousef Anqawi and Amir Darraj.
Many suffocation cases were reported among the peaceful protesters as the IOF used tear gas to disperse them.
Anqawi and Darraj were shot dead about two weeks ago by the IOF while they were on their way to work in Kafr Ni’ma village.
