RAMALLAH, Mar 5 (NNN-WAFA) – More than 130 Palestinian protesters were injured yesterday, during clashes with Israeli soldiers, in the West Bank, said medics and eyewitnesses.
Palestinian eyewitnesses said, fierce clashes broke out near the villages of Beita and Beit Dajan, located to the south and east of Nablus city and near Kafr Qaddum village, east of Qalqilya.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said, at least 128 Palestinian demonstrators were injured, including 36 by rubber bullets. The others suffered from inhaling the teargas, the medics said.
Meanwhile, Murad Ishteiwi, the Palestinian coordinator of the popular resistance in Qalqilya, said that, two more protestors were injured by rubber bullets during clashes with Israeli soldiers, in the Kafr Qaddum village.
Eyewitnesses said, dozens of anti-settlement demonstrators threw stones at the Israeli soldiers, stationed on the outskirts of the villages, and burned tires.
Israeli authorities have yet to give any comment on the incidents.
Beita and Beit Dajan have seen at least weekly protests against the expansion of Israeli settlements, in the two villages and clashes with the Israeli soldiers.
Early yesterday, four Palestinians, including three children, were injured, after an Israeli settler opened fire at them, near an Israeli settlement in the old city of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to medics and eyewitnesses.
The city witnesses weekly confrontations every Friday, in protest of Israel’s settlement policy and the closure of large parts of the city centre to the Palestinians.
Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are claimed by the Palestinians, in the 1967 Middle East war and has controlled them ever since.
