Dozens of Palestinian citizens suffered from their exposure to tear gas during clashes on Saturday evening with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Kafr Qaddum town east of Qalqilya.

According to local sources the IOF attacked the weekly anti-settlement march of Kafr Qaddum and showered the participants with volleys of tear gas grenades and fired rubber bullets at them as they reached the closed western entrance of the town.

Local youths for their part clashed with the IOF and hurled stones at them.

Residents of Kafr Qaddum started staging weekly marches in 2011 to protest Israeli settlement activities and land grabs and to demand in particular the reopening of their village’s southern road which has been blocked by the IOF for long years. This road is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus the nearest economic center.

The Israeli army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal settlement of Kedumim in 2003 forcing the local residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem.

Dozens of Palestinian citizens suffered from their exposure to tear gas during clashes on Saturday evening with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Kafr Qaddum town east of Qalqilya.

According to local sources the IOF attacked the weekly anti-settlement march of Kafr Qaddum and showered the participants with volleys of tear gas grenades and fired rubber bullets at them as they reached the closed western entrance of the town.

Local youths for their part clashed with the IOF soldiers and hurled stones at them.

Video footage circulated on social media showed some youths waiting in ambush for Israeli soldiers in the town’s mountainous area before showering them with a hail of stones.

Residents of Kafr Qaddum started staging weekly marches in 2011 to protest Israeli settlement activities and land grabs and to demand in particular the reopening of their village’s southern road which has been blocked by the IOF for long years. This road is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus the nearest economic center.

The Israeli army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal settlement of Kedumim in 2003 forcing the local residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem.

Violent clashes broke out on Saturday evening between Palestinian youths and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Kafr Qaddum town east of Qalqilya.

According to local sources the clashes started after local citizens marched to the town’s closed entrance where the IOF started to shower them with volleys of stun and tear gas grenades and fired rubber bullets at them. No one was reportedly hurt in the events.

Residents of Kafr Qaddum started staging weekly marches in 2011 to protest Israeli settlement activities and land grabs and to demand in particular the reopening of their village’s southern road which has been blocked by the IOF for 14 years. This road is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus the nearest economic center.

The Israeli army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal settlement of Kedumim in 2003 forcing the local residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem.

In a separate incident a large number of Israeli police forces earlier on the same day stormed al-Aqbat suburb in al-Ram town northeast of Jerusalem closed its northern entrance and fired tear gas grenades at commercial stores in the area.

Dozens of Palestinian protesters suffered from their exposure to tear gas fumes on Friday afternoon when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked their weekly anti-settlement march in Kafr Qaddum village east of Qalqilya.

Local official Murad Shetaiwi said that clashes broke out with Israeli soldiers a few minutes after the weekly march started adding that the soldiers intensively fired tear gas and stun grenades and rubber bullets at the protesters.

The participants in the march carried out Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against the conspiracies targeting the Palestinian national project.

Residents of Kafr Qaddum started staging weekly marches in 2011 to protest Israeli settlement activities and land grabs and to demand in particular the reopening of their village’s southern road which has been blocked by the IOF for 14 years. This road is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus the nearest economic center.

The Israeli army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal settlement of Kedumim in 2003 forcing village residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem.

Six Palestinian citizens including journalists suffered bullet injuries on Friday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked participants in the weekly anti-settlements march of Kafr Qaddum east of Qalqilya.

According to WAFA news agency two journalists were among the wounded Palestinians.

Morad Shetewi coordinator of the popular resistance in the town said Israeli soldiers fired live and rubber bullets and teargas canisters towards the protesters injuring photojournalist Ayman Nubani of WAFA Agency and Nedal Shtayyeh of Xinhua Agency.

The soldiers also assaulted and arrested a French solidarity activist during the protest.

Several other protesters suffered from their exposure to tear gas fumes.

Almost every Friday Palestinians and foreign activists stage a weekly march in the town of Kafr Qaddum to protest Israel’s closure of the village’s main street and settlement activities.

The Israeli occupation army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim in 2003 forcing village residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem.