Dozens of Palestinian citizens were injured during clashes on Saturday with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Kafr Qaddum village east of Qalqilya.
According to local sources violent clashes broke out in Kafr Qaddum village after the IOF attacked participants in an anti-settlement march staged following the Asra prayer in the afternoon.
Medical sources said that three young protesters were injured by rubber bullets and many others suffered from inhaling tear gas during the events.
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 long 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.
