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Palestinians injured as IOF suppresses anti-occupation rallies

Saturday 16-October-2021

Dozens of Palestinians were injured as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) suppressed anti-occupation weekly protests in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Friday.

In Nablus several youths suffered breathing problems after Israeli forces heavily fired teargas bombs at an anti-settlement march near Jabal Sobeih area.

Also in Nablus similar clashes broke out in Beit Dajan town where IOF soldiers fired rubber bullets at local youths who were protesting a new settlement construction in the town.

The IOF also suppressed Kafr Qaddoum anti-settlement weekly march. Dozens of injuries were reported including rubber bullet wounds.

Violent clashes also broke out in Biddu town in Occupied Jerusalem amid heavy firing of teargas bombs and rubber bullets by IOF troops.

Meanwhile four Palestinians sustained injuries in an attack by a group of Israeli settlers on Palestinians picking olives in their own farms in the village of Yasuf in the occupied West Bank province of Salfit.

Yousef Hammouda a local farmer affirmed that around 30 Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Rehalim attacked him and his family with stones while they were picking olives in their land injuring him in the head his wife in the foot and his son in the back.

The settlers he added also destroyed the windshields of his vehicle pepper-sprayed other farmers and stole the belongings and equipment of many farmers who were picking olives in their own lands.

Since the start of the olive harvest season the West Bank witnessed a wave of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian farmers and their lands.

The attacks included cutting and setting fire to olive trees in various areas across the occupied West Bank.

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