Israeli troops attack Palestinian protesters in West Bank, injure 7
Seven Palestinians have been wounded and dozens more suffered teargas inhalation as Israeli forces suppressed weekly Palestinian protests in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli troops opened fire on the Palestinian protesters in Kafr Qaddum village near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya on Friday, injuring seven people, the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency reported.
One protester was hit with live fire, medical sources said, adding that another one lost his eye due to being shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet.
Residents of Kafr Qaddum hold weekly protest rallies to express their anger at the illegal Israeli settlements as well as the construction of a separation wall that snakes across the occupied West Bank, isolating large swathes of Palestinian territories.
Also on Friday, a number of Palestinian protesters in the West Bank village of Bilin suffered breathing problems after Israeli soldiers fired teargas to disperse them.
Witnesses said Israeli forces also detained a 19-year-old protester named Muhammad Adib Abu Rahmeh.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1967.
The UN and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in the 1967 war and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
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