RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 15 Palestinians were injured on Friday, in clashes with Israeli soldiers, in different parts of the West Bank, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.
The sources said, 15 Palestinian young men were injured by rubber-coated metal gunshots, besides dozens, who suffocated after inhaling tear gas that Israeli soldiers fired to disperse them.
Palestinian eyewitnesses said clashes broke out on Friday afternoon, in the village of Kufr Qaddoum, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia between dozens of Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli army.
They said that the clashes broke out following the weekly protests that the Palestinians organise in various West Bank areas against the expansion of Israeli settlement confiscation of lands.
Similar clashes broke out on Friday afternoon in different West Bank areas between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers, mainly in the city of Hebron.