Several Palestinian young men suffered injuries during violent clashes on Saturday evening with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Kafr Qaddum town east of Qalqilya in the West Bank.
According to local sources the IOF randomly fired tear gas grenades at the young men during the events triggering flames in nearby fields.
Every week Palestinians and foreign activists stage a weekly march in the town of Kafr Qaddum to protest Israel’s closure of the village’s main street and settlement activities.
The Israeli occupation army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim in 2003 forcing village residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem.
In a separate incident a horde of Jewish settlers on the same day physically assaulted a Palestinian citizen in Einabus village south of Nablus city.
Local sources in Einabus said that a local resident called Iyad Fawzi suffered injuries and bruises and received medical assistance in a hospital after settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar severely beat him and escaped the scene.
