WEST BANK (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday as clashes broke out throughout the occupied West Bank.
In Qalqilia a young man was injured after being directly hit with a teargas bomb in his head while dozens choked on tear gas during Kafer Qaddum weekly march.
Local activist Murad Shteiwi said that clashes broke out when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) suppressed the anti-settlement march and targeted the participants with rubber bullets and teargas bombs.
Similar clashes erupted at the northern entrance of Bethlehem. Teargas bombs and rubber bullets were fired by IOF soldiers during the confrontations.
In Ramallah at least a rubber bullet injury was reported while several others choked on teargas as clashes erupted in Ni’lin after Israeli forces violently attacked peaceful protesters who marched against Israeli Apartheid Wall and settlement expansion.
Prior to the attack the protesters chanted slogans against Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people and held banners reading congratulations to Mohamed al-Qeiq who ended his hunger strike earlier on Friday morning after reaching an agreement for his release.
In al-Khalil Israeli forces suppressed a peaceful march that was organized to mark the 22nd anniversary of Ibrahimi Mosque massacre.
In another attack IOF troops fired teargas bombs and rubber bullets at a peaceful march organized in protest against the escalated settlement construction in al-Khalil.
A number of injuries were reported among the participants including foreign activists.
The protesters held banners calling for the removal of Israeli settlements from the city.
Israeli forces have been closing the Shuhada Street in the city of al-Khalil since the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in 1994. Since then Palestinian vehicles and individuals are denied access to the street to provide protection for 600 Israeli settlers illegally living in the city.
More than 500 Palestinian stores were also closed following the incident while nearly 100 military checkpoints were erected throughout the city.
