Dozens of citizens were suffocated during the occupation army’s suppression of the weekly anti-settlement march of Kafr Qaddum, and the demand to open the village street, which had been closed for more than 17 years, in favor of the Qadumim settlement built on the lands of the village.
Murad Shteiwi, the coordinator of the weekly march, said: “Dozens of occupation soldiers assaulted the participants in the march after its launch from Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque with tear gas, sound and sponge bullets, which led to dozens of severe suffocation injuries. They were treated in the field.
Shteiwi confirmed that the Israeli soldiers stormed the town and occupied the roofs of the citizens´ homes, pointing to the outbreak of violent confrontations in which the youths used stones and lit dozens of tires near the gate that closed the street.
Shteiwi explained that the march began after Friday prayers with the participation of hundreds of townspeople in the east towards the gate that closes the street, chanting national slogans calling for escalation of popular resistance and its generalization throughout the country.
