QALQILIA, March 17, 2018 (WAFA) – Dozens of protesters suffocated from teargas inhalation on Saturday when Israeli forces attacked a demonstration that was calling for the reopening of a main road in the village of Kafr Qaddoum, to the east of Qalqilia, which has been closed by Israeli army for 15 years.

Murad Shtewi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, said Israeli soldiers fired teargas and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters to disperse them, causing many cases of suffocation as a result of teargas inhalation.

Minister Walid Assaf, chairman of the Anti-Settlement Commission, was among the protesters, in addition to a number of international and Israeli solidarity activists.

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