HEBRON, Monday,
July 05, 2021 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinians were injured by Israeli military
gunfire as Israeli settlers stormed Halhul town,
north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to security sources.
They confirmed
that Israeli forces scores of armed Jewish settlers into the Nabi Yunis Mosque, located in the
Palestinian-controlled Area A, sparking confrontations with Palestinian
residents.
Soldiers opened
fire towards Palestinians protestors, injuring six protestors with rubber-coated
steel bullets and causing dozens others to suffocate from tear gas.
The casualties
were rushed to nearby hospitals for urgent treatment, while the suffocation
cases were treated at the scene.
Meanwhile,
Israeli forces escorted some 10 buses packed with settlers into a historical
shrine in Tuqu town, east of Bethlehem.
Considered the highest inhabited place in Palestine, Halhul extends over a mountainous area north of Hebron
mountains at an elevation of 916 meters above the sea level.
Israel uses
archaeology as a key tool to reinforce its bogus territorial claims to historic
Palestine. It also used the Jewish nationalist name “Judea and Samaria” to
refer to the occupied West Bank to reinforce its bogus claims to the territory
and to give them a veneer of historical and religious legitimacy.
There are over
700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and
East Jerusalem.
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