Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled on Saturday the weekly peaceful anti wall march in Beit Ummar village, to the north of Al-Khalil, local sources said.
Coordinator of popular and national committees in the village Yousef Abu Mariya said that the soldiers assaulted dozens of locals and foreign activists.
He said that the soldiers used batons in beating the participants and prevented them from reaching the citizens’ cultivated land south of the village near the settlement of Karmi Tzur.
Abu Mariya said that the march was meant to oppose the Israeli settlement policy and the confiscation of Palestinian land to expand nearby settlements in addition to preventing farmers from tending to their land.
