Today, Saturday, a number of Palestinians were suffocated as a result of inhaling tear gas, in confrontations with the Israeli occupation army, in the center of Hebron (the southern occupied West Bank), and a Palestinian journalist was also injured in the attack of settlers.
Local sources said that the occupation soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear gas grenades at Palestinian youths, rejecting the occupation and settlement projects. She added that the confrontations took place at a contact point between an area under the control of the Palestinian Authority and another under the control of the occupation, where Israeli soldiers are stationed at a military post at the entrance to Al-Shuhada Street, in the center of Hebron. During the confrontations, the Israeli occupation soldiers used equipment in an attempt to pull out the door of a house to reach its roof. On the other hand, Jewish settlers attacked, this evening, a journalist living in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron city and beat him. Eyewitnesses reported that a number of "Ramat Yishai" and "Beit Hadassah" settlers in the center of Hebron beat the journalist of the "Palestine" channel Muhannad Mustafa Qafisha (28 years old), while he was in the area, which led to his bruising on his head. There are five settlement outposts in the heart of Hebron and around the Ibrahimi Mosque, in which about 700 settlers live, compared to about 7,000 Palestinians.
