Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday arrested a Palestinian journalist and attacked citizens during confrontations in Ramallah Tulkarem and Qalqilya in the West Bank.
Local sources said that violent clashes broke out between IOF soldiers and Palestinian citizens in al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya village northeast of Ramallah City.
They reported that a Palestinian journalist named Ahmad Abu Qare’ was detained during the clashes and transferred to an undeclared destination.
For the fourth day in a row Shweika village in Tulkarem witnessed clashes between IOF and Palestinian citizens protesting Israeli illegal land seizure in favor of settlement expansion.
The IOF met the protesters with heavy firing of rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas grenades.
Meanwhile in Qalqilya the IOF violently dispersed the weekly demonstration against the settlement in Kafr Qaddum village.
The IOF attacked the demonstrators with rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters. A number of Palestinians suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling tear gas and were treated in the field.
