QALQILIA, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – At least one Palestinian was injured today and many others suffocated from gas inhalation as Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinians taking part in a rally in the village of Kafr Qaddum, northwest of the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses.
Soldiers fired rubber-coated rounds, sponge bullets and teargas at the protesters to disperse them, injuring at least one of them with a sponge bullet. The protesters were demonstrating against the Israeli settlement enterprise.
The village’s population are known for their activism in the popular resistance of the Israeli colonial settlement construction and expansion activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Almost on a daily bases, clashes erupt with the Israeli occupation army in the village during anti-settlement protests.
Source: WAFA
