Dozens of Palestinians were injured in clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) following Friday prayers on the 11th “Friday of Anger” against the US president Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that 125 Palestinians were injured in the clashes that erupted in the West Bank while 23 Palestinians were injured in the protests launched along Gaza’s eastern border fence according to the spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qedra.
Over 50000 Palestinians performed Friday prayer at al-Aqsa Mosque amid strict security measures imposed on the holy site.
At least three Palestinian youths were injured by live bullets while dozens others including paramedics chocked on tear gas in clashes at the northern entrance to al-Bireh city.
Dozens of Palestinians were injured in the IOF quelling of a peaceful march launched for the 3rd week in a row in al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya village near Ramallah in protest at the confiscation of large areas of the village’s lands in favor of the construction of a new settlement road.
Wafa news agency reported that the IOF soldiers attacked the protesters with live ammunition rubber-coated metal bullets sound bombs and tear gas canisters.
Dozens of Palestinian citizens and foreign peace activists participated in Bil’in weekly march in Ramallah against the wall and settlement.
Meanwhile in al-Khalil the IOF arrested the 16-year-old Mamon al-Natsha during a peaceful protest in Bab al-Zawiya area and released him after over an hour of detention.
Al-Natsha’s father said that his son was released from Israeli jails a week ago after spending 18 months there.
The PIC reporter said that a Palestinian youth was injured during clashes between the IOF and Palestinian citizens in Bethlehem.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that clashes broke out in Beita town in Nablus after dozens of Palestinians performed Friday prayer near an Israeli settlement outpost established recently illegally on the town’s lands.
They added that a Palestinian journalist in the scene suffered breathing difficulty and was treated in the field after the IOF soldiers heavily fired tear gas canisters at the citizens.
A number of Palestinians were injured by live bullets in clashes near Huwara checkpoint in Nablus.
Local sources reported that a Palestinian young man named Fadi al-Jid was arrested by the IOF soldiers while passing through a temporary checkpoint near Sarra town to the west of Nablus.
Popular resistance coordinator in Kafr Kaddum town in Qalqilya Murad Shtewi said that three Palestinians were injured while eight others chocked on tear gas in the IOF quelling of the weekly march protesting the closure of the town’s main entrance in favor of the nearby Kedumim settlement.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that 23 Palestinians were injured by the IOF gunfire one of whom seriously in protests along Gaza’s eastern border fence with the 1948 occupied Palestine.
Thousands took to the streets following Friday prayer to participate in a mass demonstration organized by the Palestinian factions in Gaza in support of Jerusalem.
The leader in the Islamic Jihad Movement Khalid al-Batsh affirmed in his speech on behalf of the Palestinian national and Islamic forces in Gaza that all Palestinian factions reject the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and all attempts aimed at passing projects to liquidate the Palestinians cause.
