Palestinian citizens in different areas of the West Bank were exposed on Tuesday to different attacks by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and extremist Jewish settlers.
According to local sources the IOF fired tear gas canisters at Palestinian farmers as they were working on their own swaths of land near the illegal settlement of Avnei Hefetz in Tulkarem and forced them to leave the area.
A horde of Jewish settlers also assaulted farmers in an agricultural area in Shufa village southeast of Tulkarem.
In Bethlehem dozens of settlers aboard buses escorted by military vehicles entered an ancient site in Teqoa town to perform rituals which provoked clashes between local youths and Israeli soldiers.
Meanwhile a group of extremist settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds and demolished a residential room in al-Jawaya village south of al-Khalil.
In northern al-Khalil dozens of youths suffered from injuries during violent clashes with the IOF in Halhul town.
Local sources in Halhul said that the clashes started after the IOF stormed the town to provide protection for dozens of settlers who desecrated the Prophet Yunis Mosque to perform rituals.
They added that one young man had gunshot wounds to his lower extremities and two others had rubber bullet injuries while many others suffered from their exposure to tear gas during the events.
In southern al-Khalil the IOF kidnaped two 16-year-old teenagers from al-Harayek area and took them to an unknown place.
The IOF also restricted the movement of Palestinian vehicles and searched them in different areas of al-Khalil province after they set up makeshift checkpoints on roads leading to Sa’ir and Halhul towns al-Fawwar refugee camp and al-Khalil City.
