Israeli troops injure dozens of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank
At least 23 Palestinians were injured Friday by live bullets in Gaza. And dozens of Palestinians suffocated as Israeli occupation forces fired teargas at them during the weekly anti-settlements protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, West Bank.
GAZA, Friday, October 11, 2019 (WAFA) — At least 23 Palestinians were injured today by live bullets and many others by rubber-coated rounds as Israeli forces attacked dozens of protesters taking part in the weekly Great March of Return at Gaza-Israel border, according to medical sources.
Soldiers manning the separation fence fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, injuring 23 protesters by live bullets, some of them seriously.
Others were also injured by rubber-coated rounds, while dozens of protesters sustained inhalation from teargas fired by the Israeli forces.
Some of the wounded were moved to hospital and many others were treated in the field hospitals.
Over 310 Palestinians have been killed and about 18,000 others injured by Israeli forces since the outbreak of the Great March of Return protests at Gaza border on March 30, 2018.
The weekly protests call for lifting the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and for the return of the Palestinian refugees to their ancestral homes in pre-1948 Palestine.
QALQILIA, WEST BANK Friday, October 11, 2019 (WAFA) — Dozens of Palestinians suffocated today as Israeli occupation forces fired teargas at them while taking part in the weekly anti-settlements protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank, local sources said.
Israeli soldiers attacked the protesters by rubber-coated rounds and chased some of them, causing many cases of suffocation from teargas but no injuries.
For many years, villagers from Kafr Qaddum and neighboring villages have been organizing 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.
