Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces clash following a demonstration against settlements in the village of Beita in the West Bank on Friday (November 19).

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RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Nablus - 19 November 2021. Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces clash following a demonstration against settlements in the village of Beita in the West Bank.


STORYLINE:

Israeli forces Friday afternoon suppressed an anti-land-pillage rally in Beita town and Beit Dajan village, south and east of the West Bank city of Nablus, injuring some 20 people, according to medical sources.

Israeli forces used fatal violence to disperse a rally called for to protest the construction of the new colonial settlement of Givat Eviatar atop Jabal Sabih (Sabih Mountain), near Beita, as well as the seizure of lands belonging to the villagers of Beita, Huwarra, and Za‘tara to inaugurate a new settler-only bypass road.

Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent's (PRC) Emergency Department in Nablus, Ahmad Jibril, said that one protestor was injured by a rubber-coated steel bullet and 14 others suffocated from tear gas inhalation atop the mount.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers violently dispersed the participants of the rally called for to defend Palestinian-owned land threatened with confiscation, east of Beit Dajan, to make room for Israeli colonial settlement construction.

Jibril added that PRC medics provided treatment to seven protestors who suffocated from tear gas.

In almost a month, some eight Palestinians from the town were killed and over 620 others were injured while trying to oust the colonial settler outpost built atop Mount Sabih or Sbeih.

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