RAMALLAH, Jun 25 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 130 Palestinian protesters were injured yesterday, during clashes with Israeli soldiers, in several West Bank villages, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Among the injured were three, shot by live ammunition, and nine by rubber-coated steel bullets, while the others inhaled teargas, fired by the Israeli regime’s soldiers.
Fierce clashes broke out between anti-settlement protesters and Israeli soldiers, in the villages of Beita and Beit Dajan, south and east of Nablus city, respectively, and in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qaqilya city, said eyewitnesses.
The protesters burned tires and threw stones at the Israeli soldiers, stationed on the perimeters of the villages, they added.
Murad Eshteiwi, coordinator of popular resistance in Kafr Qaddum village, said that, the Israeli soldiers used live and rubber bullets, teargas and sound bombs, to attack the Palestinian protesters, rejecting the measures against their village.
The popular resistance in the village will continue until its full goals are achieved, as part of the national aspiration, to end the occupation of Palestinian territories and establish an independent state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, Eshteiwi noted.
The Israeli regime’s authorities have not commented on the incidents.
Beita, Beit Dajan and Kafr Qaddum see weekly protests by Palestinians, against the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements.
Israel occupied the West Bank and Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.
Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of Israeli settlement’s affairs, in the northern West Bank, said, the Israeli army provides protection for the Jewish settlers, to control the lands in Nablus’ villages and try to expel the Palestinian owners.– NNN-WAFA
