AL-KHALIL (Palestine Foundation Information Center) A number of citizens, including students, suffered from breathing difficulty on Sunday afternoon during Israeli occupation forces’ (IOF) storming of the towns of Beit Ummar, north of the city of Al-Khalil, and Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, due to the IOF excessive use of teargas bombs.
Eyewitnesses said the IOF stormed the town of Beit Ummar for the second time today, occupied the Safa roundabout, forced a number of citizens to get out of their homes and commercial shops and subjected them to field investigation, and blocked traffic.
They added that confrontations erupted in the town’s center near the Grand Mosque, where IOF fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas grenades towards the citizens, which led a number of them to suffer from breathing problems.
The town is always on the fire line, as the IOF military tower, erected at its entrance, turns it into a flash point of confrontation between the town’s youth and the IOF.
A number of female students suffered breathing problems also on Sunday, after the IOF had stormed the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, firing teargas canisters in the process.
The Directorate of Education reported that the Israeli troops fired teargas at students of Al-Khader Elementary School as they were entering the campus.
The IOF has recently escalated its attacks on the schools’ area in the town, leading to injuries and arrests among citizens.
