At least five Palestinians and a foreign activist were shot and injured today by rubber-coated metal bullets as Israeli forces violently quelled a peaceful anti-settlement demonstration in the village of Kufr Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in the occupied West Bank, said a local activist.
The coordinator of the popular resistance committee in the village of Kufr Qaddoum, Murab Shtawi, said Israeli soldiers attacked the march participants with rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs, shooting and injuring at least five villagers and a foreign activist with rubber bullets.
Dozens also suffocated due to tear gas inhalation. All the injured were treated at the scene.
Participants chanted slogans calling for escalating the popular resistance in the face of Israeli measures.
After all legal appeals failed, villagers decided to organize weekly demonstrations in July 2011, a step that has been met with violent suppression by Israeli forces.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency