Israeli occupation forces today assaulted residents of the village of Shufa, southeast of Tulkarm, while demonstrating at the main entrance to the village in protest of the Israeli occupation’s ongoing closure of the entrances to the village of the fourth consecutive day. WAFA correspondent said Israeli occupation soldiers fired stun grenades and teargas canisters at the protesters, causing many cases of suffocation among the protesters from gas inhalation. The protesters raised Palestinian flags and shouted slogans expressing their rejection of the ongoing closure of the village’s entrances by the Israeli occupation army. Murad Drubi, a local activist of the Fatah movement, told WAFA that the ongoing Israeli restrictions on the village amount to collective punishment, calling for an end to the unjust Israeli policy. Almost every week, attacks by Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Avnei Hefetz are reported in the village.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency (WAFA)