QALQILIA, Saturday, February 06, 2021 (WAFA) – At least five Palestinians, including a paramedic, were injured by Israeli occupation forces today as the latter attacked dozens of demonstrators taking part in an anti-settlement protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Morad Shtewi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, told WAFA that soldiers raided the village, clashed with demonstrators and attacked them with rubber-coated rounds and teargas, injuring five Palestinians by rubber-coated rounds, including a paramedic.

The wounded were treated at the scene of the clashes.

The protesters were demonstrating against Israeli settlement construction and expansion as well as daily Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially the Jordan Valley.

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