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Dozens injured during West Bank protests

Friday 20-April-2018

Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in different West Bank provinces.

Two Palestinian youths were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets during clashes in Bab al-Zawiya area in al-Khalil city.

Other clashes were witnessed in al-Bireh Bil’in al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya and Nabi Saleh in Ramallah during which the Palestinian youths set dozens of tires on fire raised Palestinian flags and chanted slogans condemning the Israeli crimes.

Following clashes between Palestinian citizens and Israeli settlers the IOF stormed Burqa town in Ramallah raided some Palestinian houses and wreaked havoc on them.

Dozens of Palestinians chocked on tear gas while an right-year-old child was injured after being hit with a rubber-coated metal bullet during the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum east of Qalqilya.

Further the IOF soldiers were deployed in large numbers at the entrance of Azzun town east of Qalqilya. They arbitrarily stopped a number of Palestinian cars and searched them.

Dozens of suffocation cases were reported during clashes in Beita Kafr Qalil and Huwara towns in Nablus.

Hundreds of Palestinian took to the streets following Friday prayer to participate in protests launched all over the West Bank and Jerusalem in support of the Great March of Return in Gaza.

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