Dozens of Palestinians along with foreign solidarity activists choked on tear gas after Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Friday afternoon violently attacked the weekly marches staged in Bilin and Kafr Qaddoum towns in Ramallah and Qalqilya against Israel’s Separation Wall and settlement.
Local sources said that the IOF soldiers showered the participants in the marches with tear gas resulting in cases of suffocation among the Palestinians and foreign activists. Meanwhile the marchers carried Palestinian flags and chanted anti-occupation slogans.
Coordinator of popular resistance in Kafr Qaddoum Murad Eshtaiwi said that Israeli forces targeted children while quelling the march which was held to demand reopening the main road in the town that has been closed by these forces for 14 years.
Palestinian Red Crescent reported that five cases of suffocation due to tear gas were treated among the participants in Kafr Qaddoum march.
