Palestinians Mark Land Day with Protest Marches, Israelis Respond with Force

Rasa - Palestinians marked Land Day with protest marches in some West Bank cities, but Israeli forces dispersed the marches with force, according to officials.

News ID: 428554

Date: 31 March 2017 - 21:22

RNA - In Bethlehem in the South of the West Bank, protesters marched from Beit Jala to the Cremisan valley where Israel seized hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land near the monastery to build its segregation wall, WAFA quoted the officials as saying.

When the march reached the Israeli army checkpoint at the Cremisan, soldiers fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades at them causing many to suffer from gas inhalation.

Some of the protesters were able to climb the four-meter high fence in the area and placed Palestinian flags on it.

In the North of the West Bank, soldiers attacked Palestinians who were attempting to plant seedlings in the Nablus area village of Madama on land near the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.

The soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas at the Palestinians injuring 45 people from rubber bullets and 17 treated for suffocation, according to Red Crescent medics.

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