Israeli Occupation forces suppress popular weekly anti-wall protests

Two protesters were wounded, one seriously, at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Kafr Quaddoum weekly protest against illegal settlements and the apartheid wall.

The IOF soldiers fired tear gas to disperse the demonstration which was organized this Friday in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners.

During the demonstration, two Palestinians were wounded: Wassim Borhom, 19, was hit by a tear gas canister in the head, and Mohamed Al-Khatib, 28, was hit by rubber bullets in his leg and hand.

Dozens of locals and foreign activists were treated for breathing difficulty as a result of the IOF shooting of teargas bombs and spraying waste chemicals at the demonstrators.

The popular committees against the wall and settlements confirmed that the occupation forces were shooting tear gas, sound bombs, and rubber bullets into the crowd to disperse the demonstration. Once they arrived near the Apartheid wall the occupation army sprayed the protesters with water mixed with waste chemicals, the committees affirmed.

The protesters raised the Palestinian prisoners’ photos while marching in the village streets and chanting slogans calling for national unity, resistance, freedom to prisoners and Palestine.

Meanwhile, dozens of civilians and international peace activists staged a sit-in, after Friday prayers at a Palestinian house that was seized, last week, by Zionist settlers in Beit Hanina in occupied Jerusalem, claiming the land ownership.

The protesters raised Palestinian flags while chanting slogans against settlements and occupation and calling for expelling the settlers from the house.