Violent clashes broke out on Saturday evening between the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and dozens of local youths in Kafr Qaddum town east of Qalqilya city.
According to local sources one young man was injured in his foot by a rubber bullet and dozens suffered from their exposure to tear gas during the clashes.
The events started when the IOF attacked a march staged by local residents in protest at Israeli settlement activities in their area.
The IOF also detained a family inside their own house for about four hours after storming it and embarking on demolishing its interior walls using manual tools.
The IOF storms this house every week after attacking the weekly march of Kafr Qaddum and clashing with local youths.
Recently the IOF has escalated its campaigns Kafr Qaddum and set up ambushes in abandoned homes.
Residents of Kafr Qaddum started staging weekly marches in 2011 to protest Israeli settlement activities and land grabs and to demand in particular the reopening of their village’s southern road which has been blocked by the IOF for 14 years. This road is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus the nearest economic center.
The Israeli army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal settlement of Kedumim in 2003 forcing the local residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem.
