A number of Palestinians were injured on Wednesday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled a peaceful demonstration near Ramallah.
Local sources reported that clashes erupted at the northern entrance to al-Bireh city north of Ramallah after the IOF quelled a demonstration organized in protest at the US embassy transfer to Jerusalem and the Israeli crimes in Gaza.
The sources said that the IOF soldiers attacked the demonstrators with rubber-coated metal bullets sound bombs and teargas canisters causing several suffocation cases.
They added that the IOF chased a group of Palestinian youths in an attempt to arrest them amid heavy firing of teargas canisters.
