Dozens of Palestinians are injured and 6 others arrested in the West Bank
On February 27th, dozens of Palestinians were injured as the Israeli occupation forces suppressed a sit-in in the town of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus in the West Bank.
Palestinians staged a sit-in against the Israeli settlers’ repeated incursions into the town and obstruction of students’ access to their schools.
Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation forces fired stun grenades and poison gas at the protesters in the vigil, causing dozens of suffocation cases.
A number of Palestinian students were injured during the past week as a result of the settlers’ attacks, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, in the schools area on the main Ramallah-Nablus Street, in an attempt to seize the schools and turn them into settlement outposts.
In addition, the Israeli occupation forces arrested six Palestinians in separate areas of the West Bank.
Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of Beit Fajjar and Husan in Bethlehem, Deir al-Ghusun in Tulkarm, Sur Baher in occupied Jerusalem, and Tarqumiya in Hebron, and arrested six Palestinians.
On February 26th, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinians in Ramallah in the West Bank.
O. al-Mohammad