216 Palestinians injured during confrontations with settlers
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The Palestinian emergency services say 216 people were injured in Nablus while confronting a settler rally in Jabal Sbeih attended by MKs.
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Israeli settlers gather in the outpost of Evyatar in the West Bank, occupied Palestine, April 10, 2023 (AP)
Two Israeli soldiers were injured after they had stones hurled at them in Beita, in the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported on Monday amid ongoing confrontations in the area.
The Palestine Red Crescent announced that the confrontations in Jabal Sabih in the town of Beita in Nablus resulted so far in 216 injuries, as young Palestinians confronted the provocative march carried out by illegal Israeli settlers, with the participation of Knesset members and ministers.
Thousands of settlers began storming the Jabal Sbeih area earlier in the day.
الهلال الأحمر: 216 إصابة في مواجهات بلدة بيتا قبالة جبل صبيح، منها 22 بالرصاص المطاطي، و7 حالات وقوع، وإصابتان بقنابل غاز في الرأس، و185 حالة اختناق. pic.twitter.com/W7cfmqm0Uu
— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) April 10, 2023
The Palestinian official who monitors the settlements in Nablus, Ghassan Douglas, said thousands of settlers organized a rally from the Zatara roundabout toward the "Evyatar" settlement outpost built on the top of Jabal Sbeih, with the participation of at least seven Israeli ministers and more than 20 Knesset members, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Police Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
According to Douglas, the demonstration aimed to demand the legalization of the settlement outpost, as well as respond to the resistance operations, the Israeli occupation has claimed.
The Israeli occupation forces were heavily deployed on the road between Ramallah and Nablus, while the Zatara and Hawara checkpoints impeded the movement of citizens from time to time.
Adding insult to injury, journalists were also subject to brutal assaults at the hands of the IOF while covering the Israeli settlers' raid.
It is worth noting that illegal Israeli settlers launched raids in Huwara, Nablus, violently assaulting Palestinians in February while the Israeli occupation forces were preventing ambulance crews from making it to the scene.
وزير امن الاحتلال المتطرف بن غفير يشارك في اقتحام جبل صبيح مع الاف المستوطنين. pic.twitter.com/kT0uOH1q62
— Dr. Qalam Yanzef (@rebhibader) April 10, 2023
Extremist settler groups had called for a march that they called "All of Israel's land is ours... We will return" toward the northern West Bank.
The Israeli occupation forces licensed the march, with numerous senior officials partaking in it.
In a related context, the Islamic Endowments Department in occupied Al-Quds reported that hundreds of illegal Israeli settlers stormed on Monday the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque from the side of Al-Mughrabi Gate, noting that they were under heavy protection from the Israeli occupation forces.
The incursion took place on the fifth day of the so-called Jewish Passover holiday.
Palestinian Press Agency SAFA pointed out that the occupation forces deployed their special units in Al-Aqsa courtyards and at its gates in preparation for the settlers' incursions.
"672 settlers, including former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in successive groups since morning. The settlers carried out provocative tours in its courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals in the eastern region of the mosque protected by the occupation police," the agency reported.
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