Clashes were reported on Friday afternoon between Palestinian youths and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in several villages of the West Bank following the start of the weekly anti-settlement marches.
IOF soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas bombs at Palestinian protestors to quell the anti-settlement marches in Beita and Beit Dajan villages in Nablus in addition to Kafr Qaddoum village in Qalqilya and Masafer Yatta in al-Khalil leaving scores of Palestinians injured and causing breathing problems to several others.
Medical sources reported that 12 Palestinian youths were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets in Kafr Qaddoum village while 12 others suffered breathing problems in Beit Dajan after IOF soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas bombs at the protestors.
Moreover five foreign activists were arrested after they participated in the anti-settlement march in Masafer Yatta.
In another development a fire broke out in Palestinian-owned lands in Qaryut village south-east of Nablus after the IOF soldiers fired tear gas bombs in the village which triggered clashes.
Furthermore the IOF soldiers attacked the funeral procession of a Palestinian woman in the West Bank city of al-Khalil firing teargas bombs at the participants.
Since July 2011 Kafr Qaddoum has witnessed every Friday and Saturday marches demanding the opening of the village’s main entrance which was closed by the IOF during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2003.
