Clashes broke out between Palestinian young men and Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed at a military checkpoint at Jabal Gerizim in Nablus in the northern West Bank on Sunday evening.
Local sources said that young men burned a military tent belonging to the Israeli army near the military checkpoint set up on locals’ lands on Jabal Gerizim.
In their turn IOF soldiers fired teargas bombs and many Palestinians suffered breathing problems as a result of the intensive firing.
On a weekly basis Palestinians hold demonstrations against illegal Jewish settlements in different parts of the West Bank especially in Beita Beit Dajan and Kafr Qaddoum villages.
Israeli and Palestinian estimates indicate there are about 650000 Jewish settlers living in 164 settlements and 116 outposts in the West Bank including in Occupied Jerusalem.
Under international law all Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are considered illegal.
