RAMALLAH, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Palestinian demonstrators were injured on Friday during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Qalqilya, medical sources and local activists said.
Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a press statement emailed to Xinhua that Israeli soldiers shot and wounded eight Palestinian demonstrators, including seven by rubber-coated metal bullets and one by a tear gas canister north of Ramallah.
The statement said that medical crews sent the eight wounded by ambulances to the government hospital in Ramallah for medical treatment and they are in stable condition.
Local activists who joined a march against the Israeli plan of annexing parts of the West Bank said that dozens of Palestinians demonstrated in the village of Turmus Ayya north of Ramallah.
Saeed Talib, mayor of the village, told reporters that Israeli soldiers opened fire and tear gas at the Palestinian demonstrators who joined a peaceful march on their lands that Israel is threatening to confiscate.
"The Palestinian citizens joined the peaceful march to express their refusal of establishing a new Israeli settlement outpost on the lands of their village," said the mayor.
Meanwhile, Israeli army forces dispersed dozens of Palestinians that joined another march against the Israeli annexation plan in the village of Kafr Qaddum east of Qalqiliya in northern West Bank.
Murad Ishtiwi, coordinator of the Local Popular Resistance Committee in Qalqilya, told Xinhua that Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinian protestors. Enditem
