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Israeli soldiers attack young protesters near Qalandiya checkpoint

Friday 19-May-2017

Several Palestinian young men suffered injuries on Thursday evening during violent clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Occupied Jerusalem.

The Red Crescent said that its paramedics provided medical assistance for six Palestinian young men after they suffered from inhaling tear gas during the events.

In this regard local sources said that a group of young people marched from the prisoner solidarity tent in Qalandiya refugee camp to the military barrier where Israeli soldiers showered them with tear gas and fired some shots at them

Several young protesters expressed their anger at the murder of 23-year-old Mu’taz Bani Shamsa by a Jewish settler in Huwara town south of Nablus in the West Bank.

Later dozens of other young men staged a march from al-Am’ari refugee camp near Ramallah to the Qalandiya checkpoint.

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