Several Palestinian citizens including two journalists were injured on Friday during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) who quelled the anti-settlement marches in the West Bank.

Hundreds of Palestinians participated in the anti-settlement activities on Mount Sobeih Beita – Nablus after performing the Friday prayer.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its crews until 3 p.m. treated nine injuries in Beita in Nablus three of them were wounded with live bullets and four with rubber bullets.

In Beit Dajan east of Nablus two photojournalists were injured during the IOF suppressing of a march one of whom is Nidal Shtayyeh who is a photojournalist working with Anadolu Agency.

Journalist Shtayyeh told Anadolu Agency that IOF soldiers fired metal bullets directly at the journalists wounding him with three bullets in his left leg.

Meanwhile IOF attacked the weekly Kafr Qaddoum march where civilians protested against settlements and demanded the opening of the main village street which was closed for 18 years.

Murad Shteiwi the media spokesman of Qalqilya stated that the IOF soldiers stormed the town before the beginning of the march while the citizens were performing Friday prayer at Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque and they climbed the roofs of citizens’ houses and their snipers stationed there.

Dozens of citizens suffered breathing problems and were treated in the field.

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission Minister Walid Assaf and hundreds of citizens participated in the march and chanted slogans calling for an escalation of popular resistance.

IOF also quelled a rally in the al-Ras area west of Salfit and many Palestinians suffered breathing difficulties while a foreign solidarity activist was arrested.

Ammar Amer the coordinator of the factional coordination file in Salfit said that the settlers and the IOF soldiers chased the participants in the march with the aim of preventing them from reaching the outpost in the Ras area.

He stressed that the popular activities and rallies will continue in the area until the outpost is removed.

Meanwhile the Israeli police suppressed a march condemning the construction of a street serving the military and settlers in the al-Thaqara area west of Hizma town northeast of Occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that the occupation police fired metal bullets stun grenades and tear gas canisters at the citizens.

A young man was hit with rubber-coated metal bullets in his leg while others suffered breathing problems and two fainted.

Several Palestinians suffered breathing problems during clashes that erupted on Friday afternoon with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) who attacked the weekly march in Kafr Qaddum town east of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported that IOF quelled the Kafr Qaddum march and fired rubber-coated metal bullets stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards the Palestinian citizens.

The participants chanted patriotic slogans calling for the escalation of popular resistance.

The village recently witnessed escalation in IOF raids which was represented by frequent night raids and ambushes in deserted houses to suppress the weekly march but the citizens insist on maintaining the weekly event until the achievement of its goals.

For the tenth year in a row the weekly anti-settlement marches continue to demand the opening of the main road of Kafr Qaddum town which the IOF closed for settlement expansion.

IOF closed the main entrance to the village to expand the Qaddumim settlement which is built on the village’s lands and linked its outposts on an area of 4000 dunums of the village’s total land area of 23000 dunums.

The importance of the closed entrance to the village lies in the fact that it is the passage that connects Kafr Qaddum and its surroundings to the Palestinian villages and towns which caused great suffering to the citizens.

Meanwhile clashes broke out between Palestinian citizens and the IOF soldiers on Friday evening in the Bab al-Zawiya area in the center of al-Khalil.

Eyewitnesses reported that clashes erupted between citizens and IOF which were stationed at the military checkpoint at the entrance to al-Shuhada street without any injuries reported.

Bab Al-Zawiya Square is located at the main center of al-Khalil city and is surrounded by many military bases and settlement outposts.

For 25 years the occupation authorities have been implementing a separation policy in the center of al-Khalil city aimed at enabling Israeli settlers to live in the center of an overcrowded Palestinian city.