Dozens of Palestinians on Thursday were injured after Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) quelled anti-occupation peaceful marches held in commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the Land Day in Nablus and Bethlehem.
The PIC reporter in Bethlehem said that the IOF soldiers on Thursday afternoon violently attacked the anti-occupation march which was organized by Islamic and national factions.
The march kicked off from the Orthodox Club in Beit Jala and headed to Kerizman area where the Israeli occupation authorities had built a fence that cordoned off thousands of Palestinian dunums in that area he added.
Activists along with school students and people of the city participated in the march and carried Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against Israeli occupation.
The IOF troops showered the participants with tear gas grenades upon approaching the Separation Wall which led to suffocation cases among many of them.
In Nablus governorate IOF soldiers quelled the anti-occupation march that kicked off from Madama town south of Nablus city and headed to the confiscated lands close to Yitzhar settlement in order to plant olive trees in that area.
Israeli forces who were deployed in the area fired rubber bullets and tear gas bombs at the participants leading to scores of live and rubber bullet injuries among the marchers. Others choked on tear gas the PIC reporter pointed out.
