QALQILIA, Friday, January 11, 2019 (WAFA) – A journalist was injured on Friday by rubber-coated rounds and several others suffocated from teargas, when Israeli forces attacked the weekly protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, in the northern West Bank, according to local sources.

Morad Shtewi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, said Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated rounds and teargas canisters towards the protesters, injuring photojournalist Ja’far Shtayyeh of the France Press Agency.

Several other protesters also suffocated from teargas inhalation.

Almost every Friday, Palestinians have been organizing weekly protests in the village of Kafr Qaddum to demonstrate against Israel’s continuing closure of the village’s main street, as well against the increasing Israeli settlement activities.

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