QALQILIA, Friday, July 05, 2019 (WAFA) – At least four Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces as they attacked the weekly anti-settlements protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near Qalqilia city in the northern West Bank, local sources said.

Morad Shtewi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, told WAFA that Israeli soldiers attacked the protesters by rubber-coated rounds, injuring  four protesters and causing many cases of suffocation from gas inhalation.

The injured were treated at the scene by the Palestinian Red Crescent staff.

For almost eight years, villagers from Kafr Qaddum and neighboring villages have been organizing a nonviolent protest on Fridays against illegal Israeli settlements, and to call on Israeli authorities to reopen the village’s main road, which has been sealed by the occupation authorities since 2002.

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