Dozens of Palestinians were suffocated by tear gas grenades during their incursion into Qaryut village, southeast of Nablus, to secure settlers´ entry to the historic Silon spring.
According to local sources, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the southern area, and soldiers deployed on the roofs of houses and started firing tear gas canisters and rubber-coated metal bullets, resulting in dozens of cases of suffocation, in addition to metal bullets, were treated in the field.
She explained that hundreds of settlers arrived in the evening by buses from the settlement of "Shilo" on the grounds of performing their rituals and celebrations Talmudic spring in Silon, claiming that it is a holy place for Jews.
