30 nov 2015
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed Monday morning two martyrs’ homes in Nablus, north of the West Bank, and carried out a number of arrests in the city.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that IOF violently stormed and searched the houses of the two martyrs Alaa Hashash and Ashraqet Qanani.
The martyrs’ family members were investigated during the raid, the sources added.
"The Israeli soldiers threatened to demolish our house in the coming days", Qanani’s father said.
Meanwhile, Hashash’s family said that Israeli forces informed them of their intention to release their son’s body within two days.
During the raid, IOF arrested three youths from the city and took them to unknown detention center.
On the other hand, Israeli forces carried out a similar raid campaign throughout al-Khalil city, south of West Bank.
Several local youths were arrested while a number of checkpoints were erected during the campaign.
Four youths were detained in Beit Ummar town, while several Palestinian vehicles were stopped and searched at a make-shift checkpoint at the entrance to Samu town.
IOF soldiers have also closed the entrance to Fawar refugee camp with cement blocks, forcing the local residents to use alternative roads.
Also in al-Khalil, Israeli forces were deployed near a local secondary school in the Old City and opened fire at its students. At least one student was injured in his foot.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that IOF violently stormed and searched the houses of the two martyrs Alaa Hashash and Ashraqet Qanani.
The martyrs’ family members were investigated during the raid, the sources added.
"The Israeli soldiers threatened to demolish our house in the coming days", Qanani’s father said.
Meanwhile, Hashash’s family said that Israeli forces informed them of their intention to release their son’s body within two days.
During the raid, IOF arrested three youths from the city and took them to unknown detention center.
On the other hand, Israeli forces carried out a similar raid campaign throughout al-Khalil city, south of West Bank.
Several local youths were arrested while a number of checkpoints were erected during the campaign.
Four youths were detained in Beit Ummar town, while several Palestinian vehicles were stopped and searched at a make-shift checkpoint at the entrance to Samu town.
IOF soldiers have also closed the entrance to Fawar refugee camp with cement blocks, forcing the local residents to use alternative roads.
Also in al-Khalil, Israeli forces were deployed near a local secondary school in the Old City and opened fire at its students. At least one student was injured in his foot.
Dozens of Palestinians marched Sunday night in the funeral of the 17-year-old slain Jerusalemite Ayman Abassi, who was shot and killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) earlier Sunday, amid calls for revenge.
The slain teen’s mother said during the funeral that her son was shot in his chest as clashes erupted in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem.
"Ayman was my youngest son", the mother said while holding his picture. He was earlier arrested by Israeli forces, she continued.
Israeli forces were deployed in the town and in surrounding areas of the slain teen’s house in Ras al-Amoud neighborhood and tried to take away his body but failed.
A local medical center was also violently stormed during the IOF raid in a failed attempt to find the body.
Local youths managed to take the body from the medical center before arrival of the Israeli soldiers fearing that his body would be stolen similar to the case of dozens of martyrs’ bodies since the outbreak of the Jerusalem Intifada, and brought it to his house before being buried at night in a nearby cemetery.
Following the funeral, clashes erupted in the nearby neighborhood of Ein al-Lozeh where Molotov cocktails were thrown at Israeli patrols.
Israeli forces also used live and rubber bullets, causing a number of casualties. One of the injured youths was taken to hospital in critical condition.
Ayman, who had previously spent 18 months in Israeli jails and a further 10 months under house arrest, was the second Palestinian to be killed by Israeli gunfire on Sunday.
Following Ayman’s killing, Palestinian national forces in occupied Jerusalem stressed the need for escalating resistance operations against Israeli targets, calling for “a day of rage” on Monday.
The slain teen’s mother said during the funeral that her son was shot in his chest as clashes erupted in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem.
"Ayman was my youngest son", the mother said while holding his picture. He was earlier arrested by Israeli forces, she continued.
Israeli forces were deployed in the town and in surrounding areas of the slain teen’s house in Ras al-Amoud neighborhood and tried to take away his body but failed.
A local medical center was also violently stormed during the IOF raid in a failed attempt to find the body.
Local youths managed to take the body from the medical center before arrival of the Israeli soldiers fearing that his body would be stolen similar to the case of dozens of martyrs’ bodies since the outbreak of the Jerusalem Intifada, and brought it to his house before being buried at night in a nearby cemetery.
Following the funeral, clashes erupted in the nearby neighborhood of Ein al-Lozeh where Molotov cocktails were thrown at Israeli patrols.
Israeli forces also used live and rubber bullets, causing a number of casualties. One of the injured youths was taken to hospital in critical condition.
Ayman, who had previously spent 18 months in Israeli jails and a further 10 months under house arrest, was the second Palestinian to be killed by Israeli gunfire on Sunday.
Following Ayman’s killing, Palestinian national forces in occupied Jerusalem stressed the need for escalating resistance operations against Israeli targets, calling for “a day of rage” on Monday.
A number of Palestinians choked on tear gas on Sunday evening in clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in al-Khalil’s northern town of Beit Ummar, in the southern West Bank.
A PIC news reporter said violent clashes flared up in Beit Ummar, where the IOF attacked the Palestinian protesters with tear gas canisters and stun grenades.
Several Palestinians sustained critical breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas.
Meanwhile, two Palestinian youths were aggressively assaulted and kidnapped by the occupation troops near Beit Ummar’s main entrance.
The IOF has tightened military grip around the area, sealing off all of its main entrances with concrete roadblocks.
A military checkpoint was also pitched by the IOF on al-Khalil’s main access road known as al-Joura entrance, where Palestinian vehicles and passers-by had been subjected to exhaustive inspection.
Another military checkpoint was set up on the main entrance to al-Khalil’s southern area known as Wadi al-Jouz. A traffic congestion cropped up after dozens of Palestinian vehicles and passers-by lined up in long queues for inspection and interrogation by the IOF.
All of the other main entrances to the city have reportedly been sealed off with cement blocks as part of Israeli intents to crack down on the Palestinian citizens and quell anti-occupation activism in the area.
A PIC news reporter said violent clashes flared up in Beit Ummar, where the IOF attacked the Palestinian protesters with tear gas canisters and stun grenades.
Several Palestinians sustained critical breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas.
Meanwhile, two Palestinian youths were aggressively assaulted and kidnapped by the occupation troops near Beit Ummar’s main entrance.
The IOF has tightened military grip around the area, sealing off all of its main entrances with concrete roadblocks.
A military checkpoint was also pitched by the IOF on al-Khalil’s main access road known as al-Joura entrance, where Palestinian vehicles and passers-by had been subjected to exhaustive inspection.
Another military checkpoint was set up on the main entrance to al-Khalil’s southern area known as Wadi al-Jouz. A traffic congestion cropped up after dozens of Palestinian vehicles and passers-by lined up in long queues for inspection and interrogation by the IOF.
All of the other main entrances to the city have reportedly been sealed off with cement blocks as part of Israeli intents to crack down on the Palestinian citizens and quell anti-occupation activism in the area.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a security officer suffered a serious injury in his face, after Israeli soldiers opened fire on a car near Bet El settlement, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. Three Palestinians injured in Silwad town.
The sources said the wounded officer Abdullah Rostom Issa, 27, is from Burin town, south of Nablus.
They added that the officer was shot in his face, below his eye, as he was in a car, heading home from work.
The officer was shot approximately 700 meters way from an area of clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths.
In related news, thee young Palestinian men were shot with live Israeli army fire in Silwad town, east of Ramallah.
Media sources said the soldiers invaded the town, and clashed with local youths, who hurled stones, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails on their vehicles.
The sources said the wounded officer Abdullah Rostom Issa, 27, is from Burin town, south of Nablus.
They added that the officer was shot in his face, below his eye, as he was in a car, heading home from work.
The officer was shot approximately 700 meters way from an area of clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths.
In related news, thee young Palestinian men were shot with live Israeli army fire in Silwad town, east of Ramallah.
Media sources said the soldiers invaded the town, and clashed with local youths, who hurled stones, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails on their vehicles.
29 nov 2015
At least 29 kidnapped overnight
Dozens of Palestinians were injured Sunday, during clashes with Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank, while at least 29 Palestinians were kidnapped by Israeli forces, overnight.
Dozens were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets at the northern entrance of al-Bireh, according to WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency.
Following a peaceful rally called for by the Fateh movement and national factions, which took off from the center of Ramallah to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, clashes broke out between protestors and Israeli forces.
The Secretary of Fateh in Ramallah and al-Bireh, Mwaffaq Suhwahil, asserted that the event is a clear message to Israel that 'Fateh’ and the Palestinian people will continue to fight against the occupation until the establishment of independent state of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.'
Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided a kindergarten in Beit Ummar, to the south of Hebron, according to a local official.
Spokesperson of the anti settlement popular committee in Beit Ummar, Mohammed Awad, said that armed Israeli soldiers raided the kindergarten at dawn, after breaking down its main front door and windows.
He said that forces further destroyed the furniture, computers, and children’s belongings, and ripped up the tiles from one of the classrooms before withdrawing from the area.
The Israeli army has previously carried out numerous such attacks, with deliberate and reckless use of force, against schools and educational facilities across the West Bank, in a serious violation of international law and students’ right to pursue education in a safe environment.
To be noted, Defense for Children International (DCI) described the year 2014 as the most difficult year for Palestinian children, due to ongoing Israeli violations, mainly the 2014 summer aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The Global Coalition to protect Education from Attack also said, “During situations of armed conflict, attacks on education may violate international humanitarian and criminal law and constitute war crimes (or crimes against humanity during war or peacetime) as set out in the 1907 Hague Regulations, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and customary international humanitarian law.”
Mohammad Awad, the coordinator of the popular committee against settlements and the Apartheid Wall in Beit Ummar, said that clashes also broke out in the al-Thaher area, near the illegal settlement of Karmei Tzur, where Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters in the direction of Palestinian houses, resulting in suffocation cases.
At least five Palestinian students were injured by live fire, while dozens others suffocated due to teargas inhalation during renewed clashes with Israeli troops at the campus of Palestine Technical University (Kadoorie) in Tulkarem, on Sunday, according to medical sources.
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said that five students were injured by live ammunition and dozens others suffocated due to inhaling teargas, as Israeli forces raided the university’s campus. Other students were also injured by rubber-coated rounds, and were treated at the scene.
PRC reported that three students lost consciousness due to excessive tear gas inhalation, which necessitated their transfer to hospital for treatment.
Since the beginning of unrest in October 2015, the university has been a scene of renewing clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians students, which have resulted in numerous injury cases and affected daily classes.
Israeli forces, overnight, abducted at least 29 Palestinians, including minors, from across various West Bank districts, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
PPS said that at least 15 Palestinians were detained from the Hebron area, 11 of whom were identified as Turkey al-A’lami, 37, Mohammed Abu Jhaisheh, 21, Mohammed Swaiti, Mo’ath Masalmeh, Mohammed Masharqa, Ayman and Mohammed Masharqa, Khalil Dasseh, 23, 26-year-old Ashraf and Amjad, 26, al-Qadi, in addition to Mohammed, 19, and Mohannad,17, Awad. The identity of the remaining four remains unknown until the moment.
In al-Bireh and Ramallah, forces kidnapped five Palestinians, including a 52-year-old mother of a Palestinian detainee held in Israeli jails, as she was on her way to visit her imprisoned son.
The five were identified as Nada Shokeh, 52, and Fadi Atallah, 17, in addition to three brothers identified as Ahmad, 19, Mahmoud, 21, and Mohannad, 17, Salahat.
Forces further took two more Palestinians from the Nablus area. They were identified as Mohammed Khader, and Ja’afar Ramadan.
In Tulkarem, army soldiers detained minor Ismail I’tair from the village of Faro’un.
In the meantime, forces served a number of Palestinian youths from Qabatiya, to the south of Jenin, with notices ordering them to appear before Israeli intelligence, at Salem military camp, in Jenin.
PPS said that, during the past two days, Israeli forces have detained at least 34 Palestinians, including a young women identified as Maryam Sawafteh, 21, from Tubas.
Dozens of Palestinians were injured Sunday, during clashes with Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank, while at least 29 Palestinians were kidnapped by Israeli forces, overnight.
Dozens were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets at the northern entrance of al-Bireh, according to WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency.
Following a peaceful rally called for by the Fateh movement and national factions, which took off from the center of Ramallah to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, clashes broke out between protestors and Israeli forces.
The Secretary of Fateh in Ramallah and al-Bireh, Mwaffaq Suhwahil, asserted that the event is a clear message to Israel that 'Fateh’ and the Palestinian people will continue to fight against the occupation until the establishment of independent state of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.'
Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided a kindergarten in Beit Ummar, to the south of Hebron, according to a local official.
Spokesperson of the anti settlement popular committee in Beit Ummar, Mohammed Awad, said that armed Israeli soldiers raided the kindergarten at dawn, after breaking down its main front door and windows.
He said that forces further destroyed the furniture, computers, and children’s belongings, and ripped up the tiles from one of the classrooms before withdrawing from the area.
The Israeli army has previously carried out numerous such attacks, with deliberate and reckless use of force, against schools and educational facilities across the West Bank, in a serious violation of international law and students’ right to pursue education in a safe environment.
To be noted, Defense for Children International (DCI) described the year 2014 as the most difficult year for Palestinian children, due to ongoing Israeli violations, mainly the 2014 summer aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The Global Coalition to protect Education from Attack also said, “During situations of armed conflict, attacks on education may violate international humanitarian and criminal law and constitute war crimes (or crimes against humanity during war or peacetime) as set out in the 1907 Hague Regulations, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and customary international humanitarian law.”
Mohammad Awad, the coordinator of the popular committee against settlements and the Apartheid Wall in Beit Ummar, said that clashes also broke out in the al-Thaher area, near the illegal settlement of Karmei Tzur, where Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters in the direction of Palestinian houses, resulting in suffocation cases.
At least five Palestinian students were injured by live fire, while dozens others suffocated due to teargas inhalation during renewed clashes with Israeli troops at the campus of Palestine Technical University (Kadoorie) in Tulkarem, on Sunday, according to medical sources.
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said that five students were injured by live ammunition and dozens others suffocated due to inhaling teargas, as Israeli forces raided the university’s campus. Other students were also injured by rubber-coated rounds, and were treated at the scene.
PRC reported that three students lost consciousness due to excessive tear gas inhalation, which necessitated their transfer to hospital for treatment.
Since the beginning of unrest in October 2015, the university has been a scene of renewing clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians students, which have resulted in numerous injury cases and affected daily classes.
Israeli forces, overnight, abducted at least 29 Palestinians, including minors, from across various West Bank districts, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
PPS said that at least 15 Palestinians were detained from the Hebron area, 11 of whom were identified as Turkey al-A’lami, 37, Mohammed Abu Jhaisheh, 21, Mohammed Swaiti, Mo’ath Masalmeh, Mohammed Masharqa, Ayman and Mohammed Masharqa, Khalil Dasseh, 23, 26-year-old Ashraf and Amjad, 26, al-Qadi, in addition to Mohammed, 19, and Mohannad,17, Awad. The identity of the remaining four remains unknown until the moment.
In al-Bireh and Ramallah, forces kidnapped five Palestinians, including a 52-year-old mother of a Palestinian detainee held in Israeli jails, as she was on her way to visit her imprisoned son.
The five were identified as Nada Shokeh, 52, and Fadi Atallah, 17, in addition to three brothers identified as Ahmad, 19, Mahmoud, 21, and Mohannad, 17, Salahat.
Forces further took two more Palestinians from the Nablus area. They were identified as Mohammed Khader, and Ja’afar Ramadan.
In Tulkarem, army soldiers detained minor Ismail I’tair from the village of Faro’un.
In the meantime, forces served a number of Palestinian youths from Qabatiya, to the south of Jenin, with notices ordering them to appear before Israeli intelligence, at Salem military camp, in Jenin.
PPS said that, during the past two days, Israeli forces have detained at least 34 Palestinians, including a young women identified as Maryam Sawafteh, 21, from Tubas.
Dozens of Palestinian youths suffered on Sunday different injuries during clashes with Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) at the northern entrance of al-Bireh city in occupied West Bank.
Medical sources said that dozens of people suffered rubber bullet wounds and the effects of tear gas inhalation after IOF heavily fired tear gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets at the entrance to the city.
Since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada on October 1, 105 Palestinians were shot and killed while 12,000 others suffered different injuries by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said that dozens of people suffered rubber bullet wounds and the effects of tear gas inhalation after IOF heavily fired tear gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets at the entrance to the city.
Since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada on October 1, 105 Palestinians were shot and killed while 12,000 others suffered different injuries by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip.
Six Palestinians were injured by Israeli live bullets including two in serious conditions, while over fifty others choked on tear gas in clashes with Israeli forces at Khadouri University in Tulkarem.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the clashes erupted in the wake of Israeli storming of the university and abusing of its students who confronted Israeli soldiers by stones and empty bottles.
Israeli troops assaulted Palestinian students during the clashes. Classes were called off at the university which has been recently witnessing many raids by Israeli occupation forces, the sources pointed out.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the clashes erupted in the wake of Israeli storming of the university and abusing of its students who confronted Israeli soldiers by stones and empty bottles.
Israeli troops assaulted Palestinian students during the clashes. Classes were called off at the university which has been recently witnessing many raids by Israeli occupation forces, the sources pointed out.
Scores of Palestinians suffered injuries on Saturday in a renewed round of violent clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in different West Bank areas, which saw widespread road closures and raids on homes.
In al-Khalil, a number of Palestinians, including families in their homes, suffered from inhaling tear gas during clashes with invading Israeli troops in Beit Ummar town and the refugee camps of al-Aroub and al-Fawwar.
Local sources said that the Israeli army tightened its blockade on al-Aroub camp after it blocked an entrance near the graveyard used by the residents.
The Israeli army had imposed a tight blockade on the camp in the past few days.
In Tulkarem, the IOF kidnapped yesterday evening 15-year-old Ismail Khalil from his home in Far'un town, south of the province.
Eyewitnesses said the IOF invaded Far'un town in large numbers and prevented all residents from going in or out.
They added that the soldiers forced storekeepers to close their businesses and imposed a curfew on the town.
In Ramallah, the IOF stormed Badras village in the west and embarked, with no reason, on firing tear gas and stun grenades on its streets, which triggered clashes between them and local young men.
A Palestinian young man reportedly suffered a leg injury from live fire during the confrontations with the invading troops in the village.
In Qalqiliya, Israeli soldiers in the evening maltreated citizens at the entrance to the city and detained hundreds of cars at the liaison checkpoint (DCO).
Earlier, the IOF attacked an anti-settlement march in Kafr Qaddum town, east of Qalqiliya.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) yesterday that the IOF fired volleys of live and rubber bullets as well as tear gas and stun grenades at the participants in the march and wounded several of them.
In Nablus, five young men suffered injuries during clashes with Israeli troops near Hawwara checkpoint, south of the city.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army was still closing all entrances to Hizma town, northeast of Jerusalem, and obstructing the movement of Palestinian vehicles and citizens, according to local sources on Saturday.
The Israeli army also closed, for about three hours, the main entrance to Bir Nabala town, which leads to Palestinian villages in the northwest of Jerusalem.
In addition, the army closed with concrete blocks al-Kassara road in al-Khalil city and the entrance to Bani Naim town, east of the city.
A makeshift checkpoint was also set up at the western entrance to As-Samua town, south of al-Khalil, where the IOF embarked on searching Palestinian vehicles and passengers.
In an earlier incident, the IOF had launched a dawn campaign in Beit Ummar town, north of al-Khalil and searched several homes, including the house of martyr Omar al-Za'aqiq, who carried a car-ramming attack last Friday on Israeli soldiers near the town.
The IOF also raided the Mosque of the town and interrogated one of the worshipers inside it.
In al-Khalil, a number of Palestinians, including families in their homes, suffered from inhaling tear gas during clashes with invading Israeli troops in Beit Ummar town and the refugee camps of al-Aroub and al-Fawwar.
Local sources said that the Israeli army tightened its blockade on al-Aroub camp after it blocked an entrance near the graveyard used by the residents.
The Israeli army had imposed a tight blockade on the camp in the past few days.
In Tulkarem, the IOF kidnapped yesterday evening 15-year-old Ismail Khalil from his home in Far'un town, south of the province.
Eyewitnesses said the IOF invaded Far'un town in large numbers and prevented all residents from going in or out.
They added that the soldiers forced storekeepers to close their businesses and imposed a curfew on the town.
In Ramallah, the IOF stormed Badras village in the west and embarked, with no reason, on firing tear gas and stun grenades on its streets, which triggered clashes between them and local young men.
A Palestinian young man reportedly suffered a leg injury from live fire during the confrontations with the invading troops in the village.
In Qalqiliya, Israeli soldiers in the evening maltreated citizens at the entrance to the city and detained hundreds of cars at the liaison checkpoint (DCO).
Earlier, the IOF attacked an anti-settlement march in Kafr Qaddum town, east of Qalqiliya.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) yesterday that the IOF fired volleys of live and rubber bullets as well as tear gas and stun grenades at the participants in the march and wounded several of them.
In Nablus, five young men suffered injuries during clashes with Israeli troops near Hawwara checkpoint, south of the city.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army was still closing all entrances to Hizma town, northeast of Jerusalem, and obstructing the movement of Palestinian vehicles and citizens, according to local sources on Saturday.
The Israeli army also closed, for about three hours, the main entrance to Bir Nabala town, which leads to Palestinian villages in the northwest of Jerusalem.
In addition, the army closed with concrete blocks al-Kassara road in al-Khalil city and the entrance to Bani Naim town, east of the city.
A makeshift checkpoint was also set up at the western entrance to As-Samua town, south of al-Khalil, where the IOF embarked on searching Palestinian vehicles and passengers.
In an earlier incident, the IOF had launched a dawn campaign in Beit Ummar town, north of al-Khalil and searched several homes, including the house of martyr Omar al-Za'aqiq, who carried a car-ramming attack last Friday on Israeli soldiers near the town.
The IOF also raided the Mosque of the town and interrogated one of the worshipers inside it.
On Saturday in the village of Kfar Qaddoum, near Qalqilia, Israeli troops opened fire with live rounds on a non-violent protest march organized by a leftist party. The protest was calling for the release of the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces over the past two months.
Three Palestinians were wounded by the live gunfire and taken to the hospital. They were identified as Majid Jom'a, 46, shot in his lower back, Mohammad Eshtweiy , 26, shot in the thigh, and Ayman Rafiq, 40, shot in the leg
At least eight others suffered from tear gas inhalation, when Israeli troops fired dozens of rounds of tear gas canisters at the protesters.
The march on Saturday was organizaed by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), a left-wing party associated with organizing worker and agricultural collectives.
Several hundred protesters marched through the town, holding signs and chanting slogans, demanding that the bodies of the slain Palestinians be returned to their families.
Israeli troops assaulted the march with tear gas and live gunfire.
The attack in Kfar Qaddoum follows similar assaults against numerous non-violent weekly protests on Friday in various parts of the West Bank. 84 people were wounded on Friday by Israeli forces firing live rounds against non-violent protesters who were marching to protest the Israeli annexation of their villages' land and resources.
In Kfar Qaddoum on Friday, Qaisar Jihad, aged 13, and Hamza Mutei, 22, were shot in the legs and injured after Israeli forces trapped protesters and opened fire, according to a spokesperson for the village's popular resistance committee, Murad Shtewei.
Three Palestinians were wounded by the live gunfire and taken to the hospital. They were identified as Majid Jom'a, 46, shot in his lower back, Mohammad Eshtweiy , 26, shot in the thigh, and Ayman Rafiq, 40, shot in the leg
At least eight others suffered from tear gas inhalation, when Israeli troops fired dozens of rounds of tear gas canisters at the protesters.
The march on Saturday was organizaed by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), a left-wing party associated with organizing worker and agricultural collectives.
Several hundred protesters marched through the town, holding signs and chanting slogans, demanding that the bodies of the slain Palestinians be returned to their families.
Israeli troops assaulted the march with tear gas and live gunfire.
The attack in Kfar Qaddoum follows similar assaults against numerous non-violent weekly protests on Friday in various parts of the West Bank. 84 people were wounded on Friday by Israeli forces firing live rounds against non-violent protesters who were marching to protest the Israeli annexation of their villages' land and resources.
In Kfar Qaddoum on Friday, Qaisar Jihad, aged 13, and Hamza Mutei, 22, were shot in the legs and injured after Israeli forces trapped protesters and opened fire, according to a spokesperson for the village's popular resistance committee, Murad Shtewei.
A mass-abduction sweep and a series of arbitrary home break-ins were launched by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) across the West Bank at dawn Sunday.
A PIC news reporter said the IOF rolled into al-Khalil’s western town of Beit Awa and kidnapped two Palestinian youngsters along with another citizen from Dura town, to the south of the city.
Two Palestinian brothers were also kidnapped by the IOF from al-Khalil’s northern town of Beit Ummar.
Sometime earlier, overnight clashes burst out in the vicinity of the Arroub refugee camp in protest at Israel’s cold-blooded murder of the youngster Khaled al-Jawabra, on Thursday.
Nablus-based sources said the IOF further kidnapped the Palestinian youth Muhammad Khader after they wreaked havoc on his family home in the city.
The Israeli occupation soldiers also attacked a group of Palestinian protesters in the area with randomly-shot volleys of tear gas canisters and stun grenades.
Both Ismail Utair and Fati Atallah, 17, were further kidnapped from the West Bank provinces of Tulkarem and Bethlehem.
Meanwhile, dozens of Israeli army troops stormed the family home of the slain Palestinian civilian Shadi al-Khasib and rummaged into the building, moments after they blew up its entrance gates and terrorized al-Khasib’s wife and three children.
Clashes flared up shortly afterwards and culminated in heavy barrages of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets abruptly unleashed by the IOF all the way through the assault.
Shadi al-Khasib was shot dead by the IOF near the Jericho-Jerusalem road a few days earlier. His brother was fatally shot a couple of days ago in the same area.
A PIC news reporter said the IOF rolled into al-Khalil’s western town of Beit Awa and kidnapped two Palestinian youngsters along with another citizen from Dura town, to the south of the city.
Two Palestinian brothers were also kidnapped by the IOF from al-Khalil’s northern town of Beit Ummar.
Sometime earlier, overnight clashes burst out in the vicinity of the Arroub refugee camp in protest at Israel’s cold-blooded murder of the youngster Khaled al-Jawabra, on Thursday.
Nablus-based sources said the IOF further kidnapped the Palestinian youth Muhammad Khader after they wreaked havoc on his family home in the city.
The Israeli occupation soldiers also attacked a group of Palestinian protesters in the area with randomly-shot volleys of tear gas canisters and stun grenades.
Both Ismail Utair and Fati Atallah, 17, were further kidnapped from the West Bank provinces of Tulkarem and Bethlehem.
Meanwhile, dozens of Israeli army troops stormed the family home of the slain Palestinian civilian Shadi al-Khasib and rummaged into the building, moments after they blew up its entrance gates and terrorized al-Khasib’s wife and three children.
Clashes flared up shortly afterwards and culminated in heavy barrages of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets abruptly unleashed by the IOF all the way through the assault.
Shadi al-Khasib was shot dead by the IOF near the Jericho-Jerusalem road a few days earlier. His brother was fatally shot a couple of days ago in the same area.
