Six Palestinians, including a journalist, were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, and dozens suffocated during the Israeli occupation army’s suppression of the weekly anti-settlement marches of the villages of Kafr Qaddum and Beit Dajan in the occupied West Bank.
Today, Murad Shteiwi, coordinator of the popular resistance in Kafr Qaddum, stated that the occupation soldiers assaulted the participants in the march, and fired metal bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at them. .
In a related context, the Israeli occupation forces targeted the Palestine TV crew while it was covering the aggression of the occupation soldiers and settlers on the lands of the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, which led to the injury of a cameraman with rubber-coated metal bullets. The Palestinian Radio and Television Authority stated, in a statement, that the occupation forces deliberately destroyed the crew’s equipment, especially cameras, as part of its systematic policy of pursuing official media crews in the field, and its continuous attempts to obscure the Palestinian image and voice that media professionals work around the clock to communicate to the world.
On the other hand, medical sources reported that two civilians were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, one in the chest and the other in the foot, while dozens suffered from tear gas suffocation, and treatment was provided to them in the field, during the Israeli occupation forces suppression of the Beit Dajan march. Anti-settlement weekly, east of Nablus.
In addition, settlers attacked three brothers from the town of Silwad, and destroyed their vehicle, while they were in the town of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, which led to bruises, and they were all taken to the hospital. It is noteworthy that the occupation forces have intensified their attacks over the past years against press crews working in the local and international media, injuring more than 200 reporters and photojournalists. They also detained press crews and confiscated their vehicles.
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