Israeli forces injure 37 Palestinian protesters in Nablus
Nablus (QNN)- At least 37 Palestinian protesters were injured yesterday by Israeli occupation forces in Beita and Qusra villages in Nablus in the occupied West Bank during night confusion activities.
Scenes from night confusion activities by Palestinian freedom fighters outside the illegal Israeli settlement outpost built on Jabal Sabih mount near the village of Beita in the occupied West Bank, last night.#SaveBeita pic.twitter.com/nHsQfcpCKY
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The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 31 Palestinians were injuried in Qusra village, 20 of them suffocated with teargas fired at them by the occupation forces and 11 with rubber-coated metal bullets, during the night confusion activities.
Another 6 protesters also suffocated with teargas fired at them by the occupation forces in Beita village.
The occupation authorities evacuated dozens of Israeli settlers last Friday from the illegal settlement of Evyatar in the occupied West Bank, after a deal was reached between a settler leader and the occupation government of new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Yossi Dagan, head of settler organisation the Shomron Regional Council, struck a deal with Israel’s defence minister, Benny Gantz, and interior minister Ayelet Shaked, that will turn Evyatar into a religious school and a military base for the Israeli forces.
‘Israel’ will keep about 50 caravan houses settlers installed in May on Palestinian lands belonging to the residents of the occupied West Bank village of Beita, while settlers would “return” to the land when Israeli occupation authorities designate it as “state-owned.”
In early May, a group of Israeli settlers set up caravans on Jabal Sabih, and with the help of Israeli occupation forces have since prevented any Palestinian access to the area.
Within days, settlers installed mobile houses, built roads and raised an Israeli flag over the settlement.
Since then, Beita has witnessed several protests against the new settler outpost on Jabal Sabih, which lies on the southern outskirts of the village and comprises an estimated 30 percent of Beita’s entire land area.
The livelihoods of at least 17 Palestinian families – more than 100 people – are threatened as they depend on harvesting their olives on land they have owned for generations.
