A Palestinian child was hit and injured by a gas canister today fired by Israeli occupation forces at nonviolent protesters taking part in the weekly anti-colonization protest in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, while many others suffocated from teargas in the village, according to medical sources. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Israeli occupation soldiers fired rubber-coated rounds, gas canisters and stun grenades at the protesters to disperse the, hitting a child with a canister in his hand and causing many others to suffocate from gas inhalation. All of those injured were treated at the scene by local medics. The protesters were demonstrating at calls from the Land Defense Committee and the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission against Israeli plans to take over large tracts of Palestinian lands in the village for the expansion of the colonial Israeli settlements surrounding the village.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA