[ 09/01/2010 - 09:01 AM ]
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used force to quell five peaceful marches organized in five villages in the West Bank on Friday to protest the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) construction of the separation wall that confiscated vast areas of Palestinian lands.
Local sources said that the IOF troops quelled the march organized by Qaryut village inhabitants south of Nablus along with the foreign activists who marched in protest against threats to confiscate their lands.
IOF soldiers in ten armored vehicles fired tear gas at the demonstrators, seven of whom fainted as a result.
Two citizens in Ma'sara village, south of Bethlehem, were wounded when IOF soldiers beat them along with hundreds others for participating in the march against the racist, separation wall.
A similar march was organized in Um Salamona village, also south of Bethlehem.
Three citizens were wounded and tens were treated for breathing difficulty in Bilin, Ramallah district, when the IOF soldiers used tear gas and rubber-coated bullets to disperse the anti-wall demonstration.
In Deir Nizam village, to the north of Ramallah, IOF soldiers violently quelled a peaceful march against the wall and settlement expansion in nearby Halmish settlement injuring six citizens.
Meanwhile, nine Palestinians were wounded in Al-Khalil late on Thursday in separate incidents.
Medical sources said that the IOF soldiers wounded and arrested a 16-year-old boy at the entrance to Halhul village, north of Al-Khalil city. They added that he was hit with two bullets in his stomach and hand and his injures were described as "Serious".
Two others were wounded at the hand of IOF soldiers at the entrance to Sa'ir village, north of the city, and six members of one family were hurt in an IOF assault on their family homes after which one of them was taken away by those forces.
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