Israeli occupation forces suppress anti-settlement rally in the West Bank

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, Nov. 26, (ST)- Israeli occupation forces suppressed this afternoon anti-settlement rally in Beita town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, injuring a journalist and causing others to suffocate, according to medical sources.

 

Israeli occupation forces used fatal violence to disperse a rally called for to protest the construction of the new colonial settlement of Givat Eviatar atop Jabal Sabih (Sabih Mountain), near Beita, as well as the seizure of lands belonging to the villagers of Beita, Huwarra, and Za‘tara to inaugurate a new settler-only bypass road, causing dozens to suffocate.

 

Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent’s (PRC) Emergency Department in Nablus, Ahmad Jibril, said that one Palestine TV reporter, Baker Abdul-Haq, was injured by a rubber-coated steel bullet in his shoulder and three other journalists suffocate from tear gas inhalation as they were covering the event.

 

Palestinians across Historic Palestine have been rising up against decades of Israeli settler- colonialism and apartheid. The villagers of Beita have not only been protesting decades of Israeli oppression, but also intensified Israeli land pillage of their land.

 

In almost a month, five Palestinians from the town were killed and over 618 others were injured while trying to oust the colonial settler outpost built atop Mount Sabih or Sbeih, according to WAFA.