Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday violently quelled the weekly protest march against the racist, separation wall in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, and deliberately beat up participants.
Local sources said that the marchers were also protesting the Israeli settlement activity, and banning farmers from tending to their cultivated land. They also voiced solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli occupation jails.
Yousef Abu Mariya, the spokesman for the village’s national committee against the wall and settlement, said that a number of participants suffered bruises as a result of the IOF beating.
He said that the soldiers used against them stun grenades, teargas canisters, and engaged them in fistfights. The soldiers also assaulted journalists covering the event, he added.
