A number of Palestinian citizens were wounded on Friday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently quelled the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum village in the West Bank district of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported that the IOF stormed Kafr Qaddum and attacked the peaceful demonstrators with live ammunition rubber-coated metal bullets tear gas canisters and stun grenades.

A number of protesters choked on tear gas and suffered minor injuries that were treated in the field activist Murad Shtewi said.

The residents of Kafr Qaddum every Friday take to the streets to protest Israel’s ongoing settlement expansion on their lands and call for opening the village’s main road which has been closed for 16 years.

A number of Palestinian citizens were injured Friday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled the anti-settlement weekly demonstration of Kafr Qaddum town in Qalqilya.

Popular resistance coordinator in Kafr Qaddum Murad Shtewi said that the IOF attacked the demonstrators with rubber-coated metal bullets and teargas canisters injuring a number of them including a Jewish peace activist.

The IOF soldiers chased the Palestinian youths in the town’s streets climbed the Palestinian houses’ rooftops and turned them into lookouts.

Kafr Qaddum demonstration was organized on Friday in commemoration of the 51st anniversary of the Palestinian Naksa (June’s setback). The demonstrators chanted slogans calling for escalating popular resistance against the Israeli occupation.