Today, Friday, dozens of Palestinians, including a doctor and a journalist, were injured and suffocated, in clashes that took place in the north and south of the West Bank, in which the Israeli occupation forces used rubber-coated metal bullets, as well as targeting an ambulance.
And the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (non-governmental) stated, in a statement, that 26 civilians were injured in confrontations with the occupation army in the towns of Beita and Beit Dajan, in the Nablus governorate (north), 13 of them were hit by metal bullets, and 13 from suffocation with gas.
She said that the army twice targeted one of the association’s ambulances with rubber-coated metal bullets, while it was carrying out its duties in the town of Beit Dajan.
The targeting, according to the statement, caused damage to the rear window of the car, and a doctor was hit with metal bullets in the shoulder while providing first aid to one of the injured.
For months, the town of Beita has witnessed almost daily protests, rejecting the Israeli control over private Palestinian land, located in Jabal Sabih.
The eastern region of Beit Dajan also witnesses weekly popular activities that reject the decision to confiscate a large area of Palestinian land, for settlement purposes.
In the town of Kufr Qaddoum, east of Qalqilya (north), 4 Palestinians, including a child and a journalist, were injured, during the Israeli army’s suppression of a weekly peaceful march condemning the settlements and demanding the opening of a main road leading to the town, according to an activist.
The coordinator of the popular resistance in Kafr Qaddoum, Murad Ishtiwi, said in a statement that the occupation soldiers attacked the march participants with metal bullets, wounding a 13-year-old child with a bullet to the leg, and journalist Nasser Shtayyeh with a bullet to the hand, in addition to wounding two other young men.
Ishtiwi added that all the injured were treated in the field by a Red Crescent team.
In the south of the West Bank, Anadolu Agency reported that clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces after Friday prayers, in the areas of Bab Al-Zawiya and Al-Shallala Street in the center of Hebron.
He added that the Israeli army fired live bullets, metal bullets, and tear gas and sound bombs, which resulted in dozens of cases of suffocation, who received treatment in the field.
The reporter pointed out that the army detained two Palestinian children and then released them, as well as beating one of the young men.
According to the data of the Israeli human rights movement Peace Now, there are about 666,000 settlers, 145 settlements and 140 random outposts (not licensed by the Israeli government) in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.