Two Palestinian young men were arrested and an Israeli activist was injured when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled the peaceful anti-settlement weekly march in Kafr Qaddoum village in Nablus province. A similar march in Bil’in village in Ramallah was quelled causing many suffocation cases among the protesters.
According to the coordinator of the Popular Resistance in Kafr Qaddoum Murad Shtewi a large force of the Israeli army attacked the protesters with heavy firing of live bullets tear gas canisters sound bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets injuring the Israeli activist Amnon with a metal bullet in the hand and arresting Jamil al-Barghouti and Ghaleb Shtewi who were taken to an unknown destination.
Shtewi said that the march was organized by Fatah movement and the Popular Resistance Committee. It was joined by hundreds of citizens who raised the Palestinian flags and chanted slogans calling for ending the occupation.
Violent confrontations erupted between the Palestinian youths and the Israeli soldiers who stormed the village raided a number of houses and climbed over their rooftops from where they fired gas canisters.
The protesters called for reinforcing the popular resistance with an actual official and factional involvement.
Meanwhile in Bil’in the IOF quelled the weekly anti-settlement and anti-wall march organized by the Popular Committee for Settlement and Wall Resistance.
The protesters raised flags of Palestine Venezuela Senegal Malaysia and New Zealand as well as photos of martyrs. They roamed the streets chanting slogans calling for national unity and ending the occupation and demanding the release of all Palestinian prisoners.
The media coordinator of the Popular Committee for Settlement and Wall Resistance Rateb Abu Rahmah said that the popular resistance will continue as long as the separation wall settlements and occupation are still there.
The Committee called on the national factions and the Palestinian people to expand the popular resistance to include all provinces of the country until the end of the Israeli occupation and the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
