Dozens of Palestinians were injured in the “Friday of Anger” protests launched in the occupied Palestinian territories against the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that its crews treated 293 injuries in the West Bank while 90 injuries were reported in the Gaza Strip.
The PIC reporter said that a mass demonstration was launched in the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque following Friday prayer against the US decision while violent clashes broke out between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near Qalandia checkpoint to the north of Jerusalem.
A Palestinian was injured by a rubber bullet while dozens others chocked on tear gas in clashes at the northern entrance to al-Bireh city following the IOF quelling of a peaceful march organized by national and Islamic forces in the city.
Many Palestinians suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling tear gas after the IOF soldiers attacked Palestinian demonstrations in Bil’in and Budrus villages in Ramallah according to local sources.
The PIC reporter said that clashes flared up in different areas of Nablus province where the IOF heavily fired sound bombs tear gas canisters and rubber bullets at the Palestinian citizens.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the IOF closed Beita town’s entrance to the south of Nablus city with cement blocks and prevented movement in both directions.
They added that the IOF soldiers stationed at the entrance arrested a Palestinian child whose identity is not known yet and took him to an unknown destination.
Local sources said that several IOF patrols broke into Beit Furik town to the east of Nablus city and clashed with Palestinian youths amid heavy firing of metal and live bullets and tear gas canisters.
The sources pointed out that the IOF closed Beit Furik’s entrance blocked the movement of Palestinian vehicles and prevented ambulances from entering the town to provide first aid to the injured.
According to eyewitnesses the Israeli soldiers detained a group of Palestinian youths near the entrance after handcuffing and blindfolding them.
Dozens were injured while others chocked on tear gas in confrontations with the IOF following marches launched in Tulkarem Salfit Qalqilya and Bethlehem against the US president Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A number of Palestinians were wounded by rubber and live bullets six Palestinian youths were arrested while dozens of suffocation cases were reported in violent sporadic clashes in al-Khalil province.
Eyewitnesses from Jericho said that the IOF soldiers heavily fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at Palestinian protesters near the northern and southern entrances of the city causing a number of suffocation cases that were treated in the field.
Meanwhile in the Gaza Strip spokesman for the Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qedra said that 50 Palestinian citizens were injured by the IOF gunfire five of them seriously during the demonstrations launched along Gaza’s eastern border.
