Scores of Palestinian citizens were wounded on Friday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently dispersed peaceful demonstrations against the settlement and annexation in different West Bank areas.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that its crews attended to 15 Palestinians injured by tear gas canisters and rubber-coated metal bullets in Kafr Qaddum Qalqilya.
Activist Murad Shtewi said that violent confrontations broke out in the village after the IOF brutally attacked the march that has been organized on a weekly basis in Kafr Qaddum since 2003 to protest Israel’s expanding settlement activity on the village’s lands.
Meanwhile the Red Crescent said that six Palestinians were injured in the IOF quelling of a march in Asira ash-Shamaliya village Nablus.
Four injured citizens were treated in the field while two were transferred to a hospital for special treatment.
Eyewitnesses reported that an ambulance which was evacuating injured protesters was partially damaged after it was deliberately targeted by the IOF with stun grenades rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters.
