RAMALLAH, March 21, 2018 (WAFA) - Eight Palestinians sustained rubber-coated metal bullet wounds while scores others, some kindergarten children, suffered from tear gas inhalation when Israeli soldiers raided al-Mughayer schools, east of Ramallah, on Wednesday, according to a local official.

Al-Mughayer secondary school principal and member of the village council, Marzoq Abu Naim, told WAFA that Israeli soldiers broke into the village in the morning as students were heading to their schools and people to work and were deployed in the village’s schools, kindergarten, homes and the local mosque.

He said clashes broke out between residents and the soldiers who fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters in the village causing suffocation among children in the kindergarten.

Eight were injured from rubber bullets, one required hospitalization, according to the Ministry of Health, but reported in light condition.

Naim Abu Alia, head of al-Mughayer village council, said undercover Israeli soldiers participated in the raid at the boys’ school, during which they beat 10 students and detained three of them.

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