1 injured, several suffocated by toxic tear gas during Palestinian-Israeli clashes in West Bank

By Aysar Al-Ayas

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – One Palestinian was injured by live bullets, and several others were suffocated by toxic gas during clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Friday.

Separately, illegal Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian farmers in the northern occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said medical teams transferred a Palestinian injured by live bullets fired by the Israeli army in the Urif village of southern Nablus to the hospital.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians erupted in the village, with dozens of people asphyxiating as a result of Israeli tear gas canisters.

Meanwhile, Israeli illegal settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while they were harvesting olive trees near the town of Sebastia in northwestern Nablus city, forcing them to leave their land.

Over the past few years, the Israeli military has conducted regular raids in the West Bank, which have escalated with the beginning of the war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinians have also been violently attacked by illegal Israeli settlers.

At least 741 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,000 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Health Ministry.

In a landmark opinion on July 19, the International Court of Justice declared Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian land "illegal" and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar