RAMALLAH (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled the weekly anti-wall marches in a number of West Bank villages on Friday using rubber bullets teargas and waste water.

Coordinator of the popular anti-wall committee in Nabi Saleh village Ramallah province Nariman Saleh Tamimi said that the IOF soldiers invaded the village in the early morning hours and launched a “preventive arrest campaign” in a desperate attempt to abort the weekly march.

She said that three Palestinian young men were rounded up but that did not deter the participants who rallied in the severe cold weather.

Bashir Tamimi the head of the village’s municipal council said that the soldiers used dogs in breaking into homes and deliberately wreaked havoc in the stormed houses.

In Kufr Qaddoum village west of Qalqilia dozens hit the streets in a similar peaceful march demanding the opening of a main street in the village that was closed by the IOF nine years ago.

The IOF soldiers also used force to disperse similar marches in Ma’sara village in Bethlehem where spokesman for the popular anti-wall committee Mohammed Breijia said that tens of citizens took part in the march despite the rainy weather.

In Bilin march many of the participants locals and foreigners were treated for breathing difficulty and vomiting after the soldiers sprayed them with waste water mixed with chemicals and teargas.

RAMALLAH (PIC)– Tens of Palestinian citizens were treated for breathing problems after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently quelled peaceful anti wall marches in a number of West Bank villages on Friday.

PIC reporter said that the separate marches which were organized in Bilin Nilin and Masara villages challenged the IOF decision turning them into closed military zones on Fridays.

The marchers hoisted Palestinian flags and said their protest marchers were in solidarity with occupied Jerusalem and holy shrines in face of Israeli judaization attempts.

The IOF soldiers fired rubber bullets and gas canisters which caused breathing difficulties among tens of participants.

The reporter said that the IOF soldiers wounded a number of participants including two cameramen and arrested a number of citizens and an Italian activist.

In occupied Jerusalem a group of settlers stormed the Sheikh Jarrah suburb in occupied Jerusalem on Friday night and assaulted Palestinian citizens.

The Quds media center said that Rifka Al-Kurd and her daughter Nadia were injured in the settlers’ attack recalling that the settlers had seized part of her home a few months ago.

It said that the Israeli occupation police escorted the settlers and arrested a number of young men for resisting them.