34 Palestinians choked on teargas in the violent clashes that broke out with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday afternoon at the entrances of Aroub refugee camp and Beit Ummar town in al-Khalil to the south of the West Bank.
According to the PIC reporter four Israeli soldiers were slightly to moderately wounded in the clashes as they were thrown with stones empty bottles and Molotov cocktails.
Palestinian medical sources said that 34 Palestinian citizens were treated for breathing problems and gunshot wounds following the clashes that erupted after the funeral of Mustafa Baradeiah and Ahmed Khlail whose bodies were held by the Israeli occupation for months before they were released on Friday.
The non-governmental Palestinian Red Crescent association said that its crews dealt with 20 cases of teargas suffocation 10 injuries with rubber-coated metal bullets and 1 injury with live bullet in Beit Ummar in addition to 3 cases of teargas suffocation in Aroub camp.
The spokesman of the Popular Committee against the Settlement in Beit Ummar Mohammed Awad told the Quds Press news agency that the Israeli soldiers initiated the attack on Khlail’s funeral with teargas canisters and rubber and live bullets.
Other limited clashes broke out in Aroub camp between the Palestinian youths and the Israeli soldiers after the latter fired teargas canisters during the funeral of Baradeiah.
Meanwhile confrontations between the Palestinian youths and the Israeli soldiers were witnessed in Beit Dajan village to the east of Nablus city following the incursion of several Israeli patrols into the village.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli forces erected a checkpoint at the entrance of the village and hindered the movement of Palestinian vehicles.
Beit Dajan village has been recently exposed to intense Israeli raids.
