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W. Bank peaceful marches against settlement met with fierce zionist forces attacks

images_News_2013_09_21_IOF-attack_300_0The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday afternoon quelled the West Bank peaceful marches protesting Israel’s violations against the Palestinians and its settlement activities.

Dozens of Palestinian and foreign activists suffered injuries when the IOF violently attacked the march organized in Masarah village to the south of Bethlehem.

The protestors marched from the center of the village to the segregation wall, carrying Palestinian flags and pictures of martyrs and prisoners. Some kids wore masks commemorating the horrors of Sabra and Shatila massacres.

In Bil’in village near Ramallah, four anti-wall activists, including a Swedish woman, suffered severe tear gas suffocation when their march was attacked upon their arrival at an area near the segregation wall.

The IOF also suppressed the Friday march in Nabi Saleh village, using tear gas grenades, skunk water and rubber bullets and other dispersal methods while the Palestinian activists responded by hurling stones.

Nabi Salih residents have hosted weekly demonstrations for three years in protest at the confiscation of the village’s lands and the takeover of their spring by the nearby Israeli settlement, Halamish.

Four Palestinian citizens were injured with rubber bullets and many others suffocated from tear gas in Khirbet Makhool hamlet when the IOF attacked the villagers along with foreign activists as they were trying to rebuild temporary homes for the displaced families.

All residents of Khirbet Makhool hamlet in the Jordan Valley are still homeless after the IOF demolished their village recently and later confiscated tents brought for them by the Red Cross.

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