QALQILIA, Friday, July 19, 2019 (WAFA) – At least 22 Palestinians, including journalists, were injured with rubber-coated rounds today by Israeli occupation forces, during the weekly anti-settlements protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank, local sources said.

Morad Shtewi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, told WAFA that Israeli soldiers attacked the protesters by rubber-coated rounds, injuring  22 protesters and causing many cases of suffocation from gas inhalation.

Many of the injured were treated at the scene while others were moved to hospital for treatment.

Almost every Friday, villagers from Kafr Qaddum and neighboring villages organize a nonviolent protest on Fridays against illegal Israeli settlements, and to call on Israeli authorities to reopen the village’s main road, which has been sealed by the occupation authorities since 2002.

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