Marches engulf West Bank against film satirizing Prophet Muhammad(Pbuh)

The occupation forces quelled the peaceful marches that engulfed in the West Bank’s cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Friday, in protest against a film satirizing the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Clashes erupted, Friday afternoon, between Israeli occupation forces and the masses of Palestinians participating in the peaceful march, launched from the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque to condemn the American film abusing the Prophet of Islam

The Hebrew radio reported that hundreds of Jerusalemites headed towards the former headquarters of the American Consulate, but were repressed by forces of the Israeli army and police that prevented them from reaching their destination.

It pointed that the police forces, using stun grenades and tear gas, tried to disperse the crowds of Palestinian demonstrators and arrested a number of them.

The radio also reported that a number of Israeli policemen were slightly injured after being hit by stones hurled by Palestinian protesters in the vicinity of the U.S. Consulate.

Jerusalemites marched against the offending film, in Damascus Gate in occupied Jerusalem where the occupation forces dispersed using force the demonstrators and arrested three of them.

Thousands of Palestinians also protested in Al-Aqsa Mosque yards chanting slogans condemning the film, but were prevented by large forces of occupation police from leaving al-Aqsa mosque.

In Bethlehem, a number of Palestinian civilians suffered from suffocation after the Israeli occupation army suppressed the participants in al-Maasara weekly march while they were heading towards confiscated lands, chanting slogans condemning the defamation of the Messenger Muhammad

Meanwhile, hundreds of angry citizens from the city of Nablus marched also after Friday prayers, protesting at the American film; and burned an American flag.

Participants called on the Arab and Islamic governments to support their voices and their protests and demanded U.S. government to apologize for the film it had published.