Eight Palestinian young men suffered from inhaling tear gas and another from a rubber bullet injury during violent clashes on Saturday evening with Israeli soldiers at the junction of Beita town south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
A Red Crescent ambulance crew provided medical assistance for the wounded young men during the events.
A local source said that dozens of young men marched in the evening hours from the sit-in tent in the town to the junction where clashes broke out with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF).
The source added that the skirmishes lasted for over two hours during which the soldiers intensively fired tear gas and stun grenades at the young protestors.
Similar clashes took place at Beita junction on Friday after soldiers attacked local young men rallying in protest at the closure of the main entrance to the town with concrete blocks.
In a separate incident the IOF on Saturday evening kidnapped a Palestinian citizen and his two sons during their participation in a procession of vehicles held in Masara village south of Bethlehem in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails.
A local activist said the participants in the procession moved from Masara to Jourt ash-Sham’ah village where Israeli soldiers at its main entrance intercepted the vehicles and forced everyone aboard them to step out before they rounded up Ahmed Zawahreh and his young sons Mohamed and Ibrahim.
