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 march in Beita and Beit Dajan villages in Nablus in addition to Kafr Qaddoum village in Qalqilya leaving several Palestinians injured and causing breathing problems to others.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society 39 Palestinians were injured including one by rubber-coated metal bullets and another by a tear gas bomb in Beit Dajan village while four others were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets in Kafr Qaddoum village.

In a related development Palestinian protestors called for removing the settlement outpost of Avitar established on Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Beita to the south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

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.

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 march.

IOF soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas bombs at Palestinian protestors to quell the anti-settlement march in Beita and Beit Dajan villages in Nablus in addition to Kafr Qaddoum village in Qalqilya and in al-Khalil leaving several Palestinians injured and causing breathing problems to others.

Local sources reported that seven Palestinians including the journalist Yusuf Shahada were injured while five others suffered breathing problems in Beit Dajan village.

In a related development Palestinian protestors called for removing the settlement outpost established on Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Beita south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

In an unrelated incident Jewish settlers destroyed part of a water line that feeds more than 300 dunums of the Khirbet al-Farisiyah village in the northern Jordan Valley according to Moataz Bisharat in charge of settlements file in Tubas governorate.

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 march 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 nine Palestinian civilians including a child were injured by metal bullets while dozens suffered breathing problems in Kafr Qaddoum village.

In another development a group of Jewish settlers hurled stones at Palestinian protestors in the Masafer Yatta leaving dozens of them injured according to the Coordinator for the Anti-Wall and Settlement Committee Rateb al-Jabour.

Last week 16-year-old Amjad Abu Alia succumbed to his serious injuries in the chest after being targeted by IOF live bullets during the anti-settlement march in Al-Mughayyir town in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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.

Scores of Palestinians were injured on Friday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled the anti-settlement marches in several areas of the West Bank.

IOF soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas bombs leaving tens of Palestinian civilians injured and causing breathing problems to others during violent clashes that erupted in Beit Dajan Beita and Qaryut villages in Nablus in addition to Kafr Qaddoum village east of the West Bank city of Qalqilya.

Medical sources reported that 14 Palestinian youths including the journalist Fadi Yasin were wounded in Beit Dajan while a Palestinian young man was injured by rubber-coated metal bullets in the head in Kafr Qaddoum.

In a related development dozens of Palestinians suffered breathing problems after the IOF soldiers fired teargas bombs at Palestinian houses in Qaryut village south of Nablus to facilitate the Jewish settlers’ raid into the water spring of the village.

Since the beginning of July 2011 Kafr Qaddoum has been witnessing 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.