At least 21 Palestinians injured on Thursday by Israeli rubber shots fired by Israeli soldiers during a Palestinian protest against building a separation wall in the West Bank, witnesses said.
Dozens of Palestinian and foreign protestors demonstrated early on Thursday in the village of Ne'leim near the West Bank city of Ramallah against the Israeli confiscation of Palestinian-owned lands in the village.
Majdi Sallah O'meira, one of the Palestinian protestors told reporters that dozens of protestors gathered in the village and demonstrated against confiscating Palestinian lands to build the separation wall.
Israel has been building into the West Bank a separation wall, described by the Palestinians as an apartheid separation wall. Building the wall confiscated Palestinian lands, uprooted fruitful trees and divided villages in the territory.
O'meira said that Israeli soldiers opened fire at the demonstrators and wounded at least 21 people by rubber gunshots, adding that dozens of tear gas canisters were also fired at the protestors.
The Palestinian protestors managed to prevent the Israeli bulldozers from working in the village, O'meira was also severely beaten by the soldiers when he stood on the top of an Israeli bulldozer.
The Israeli soldiers dispersed the demonstrations by rubber gunshots and tear gas canisters, witnesses said, adding that Israeli soldiers stormed several houses in the village and detained several people.
Source:Xinhua
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