RAMALLAH, May 21 (NNN-WAFA) – Scores of Palestinian protesters were injured yesterday, during clashes with Israeli soldiers, in several West Bank towns and villages, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Among the injured were: three shot by live ammunition; 71 shot by rubber bullets; and dozens others had to inhale tear gas, according to the organisation.
Fierce clashes broke out near the villages of Beita and Beit Dajan, south and east of Nablus city, respectively, and near the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya city, eyewitnesses said.
Dozens of anti-settlement Palestinians burned tires and threw stones at the Israeli soldiers, stationed on the outskirts of the villages, they added.
The Israeli regime has not given any comment on the incidents.
The Masafer Yatta area, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, also witnessed clashes, where Israeli soldiers used tear gas against protesters, according to Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses.
Fouad Al-Amour, a Palestinian activist, said that, local residents and Palestinian and foreign activists took part in a demonstration, against an Israeli court ruling to displace eight Palestinian communities from the area.
He said, Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades and tear gas at the demonstrators, causing dozens of them to suffocate.
The Palestinians have been organising weekly demonstrations in the villages, towns and cities of the West Bank every Friday, to denounce Israel’s settlement expansion and land confiscation.
Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, both claimed by the Palestinians, in the 1967 Middle East war.– NNN-WAFA
