‘Israeli’ Forces Attack Palestinian Rally in West Bank

By Staff, Agencies

Dozens of Palestinians were injured after ‘Israeli’ occupation forces fired rubber bullets and teargas to disperse weekly anti-settlement protests in several areas across the occupied West Bank.

The Zionist occupation forces violently attacked hundreds of Palestinians participating in a peaceful rally in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus City, on Friday, according to the Palestinian Quds News Network.

Another Palestinian was also injured during a weekly protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia, in the occupied West Bank.

“Despite bad rainy weather, clashes broke out today between #Palestinian protesters and ‘Israeli’ occupation forces in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the occupied West Bank, today,” the news network said in a tweet.

The West Bank has long been a scene of weekly peaceful protests against the apartheid regime’s settlement expansion policy.

According to a recent report by the anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now, the Tel Aviv regime has advanced plans for the construction of 780 new illegal settler units in the occupied West Bank.

According to the report, the ‘Israeli’ occupation entity advanced plans for the construction of 780 new illegal West Bank.

More than 600,000 ‘Israelis’ occupy settler units in the occupied territories in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 ‘Israeli’ occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.

All ‘Israeli’ settlements are illegal under international law as they are built on an occupied land.