WEST BANK, (The Palestine Information Centre)A number of Palestinian citizens were injured on Friday evening after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled the anti-settlement marches in several areas of the West Bank.
Clashes were reported between Palestinian youths and the IOF after the Israeli soldiers fired live bullets, rubber-coated metal bullets, and tear gas bombs at Palestinian protesters in Beit Dajan and Beita villages in Nablus and in Kafr Qaddoum village in Qalqilya.
Three Palestinian citizens were injured by tear gas bombs, one in the head and two in the chest, in Beit Dajan east of Nablus, according to Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency and Ambulance Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
He added that 23 others, including a foreign activist and a foreign journalist, suffered breathing problems in Beit Dajan.
Meanwhile, Palestinian youths torched tires in response to the Israeli attacks against the march in Jabal Subeih area in Beita village.
Moreover, a number of Palestinian citizens were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets while several others suffered breathing problems in Kafr Qaddoum, to the east of Qalqilya.
An Israeli soldier was injured after Palestinian youths hurled stones at the soldiers during Kafr Qaddoum clashes.
Since July 2011, Kafr Qaddoum village has witnessed marches every Friday to demand the opening of the village’s main entrance, which has been closed by the IOF since then.
Clashes were also reported between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers who facilitated Jewish settlers’ raid into the Mazraa Al-Gharbiyya village, north of Ramallah.
In another development, IOF arrested the Palestinian young man Ahmad al-Ayouti, 23, while he was passing through a military checkpoint at the southern entrance of Jericho.
The IOF had also arrested the head of Deir Istiya village, west of Salfit, while he was participating in the weekly anti-settlement march
