On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured at least sixteen Palestinians during the weekly nonviolent processions against the illegal colonialist activities in Beita and Beit Dajan, east and south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The Palestinians marched carrying Palestinian flags and chanting for ongoing resistance until liberation and independence before the soldiers attacked them with live gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets.
Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency Department of the Nablus office of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said the soldiers caused fourteen Palestinians, including a journalist, to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Jibril added that two Palestinians also suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation in Beita.
The Palestinians have been holding ongoing processions on their lands in Sbeih Mountain in Beita, and in Beit Dajan, since May of last year after a group of illegal Israeli colonizers installed an outpost atop the Mountain.
The soldiers injured thousands of Palestinians during these protests and killed several others, including children.
The Mountain, owned by the Palestinians, has significant strategic importance, especially since if the colonizers occupy it, the colony will lead to the annexation of 20 Dunams of Palestinian lands and would also lead to the isolation of a large area of Palestinian lands.
