Fifteen Palestinians were wounded on Friday during clashes with the Israeli army on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip and various parts of the West Bank.
The clashes broke out after the demonstrations launched after Friday prayers in the ongoing Palestinian protests for the seventh week in a row on the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qadra, said in a press release that eight Palestinians were wounded by live bullets during confrontations in the eastern Gaza Strip with Israeli troops stationed behind the fence.
Al-Qudra explained that the wounded were moderately wounded and taken to hospitals for treatment.
In the West Bank, two Palestinians were wounded by IDF gunfire and tear gas in several contact areas in the West Bank.
The sources told Xinhua that two youths and a child were wounded with rubber-coated metal bullets and others suffocated by gas bombs in the village of Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus.
The sources added that three other youths were injured during the Israeli forces’ repression of the march of the village of Kafr Qaddum in Qalqilya, noting that the wounds of the injured are medium and have been transferred to hospitals for treatment.
The weather did not prevent the Palestinians to get out of the demonstrations called by the Palestinian factions.
In the same context, considered the Islamic Jihad movement, “Every day is angry in the face of Jerusalem’s conspiracies, calling on the Palestinian masses to continue the public gift against the brutal Israeli occupation, a victory for Jerusalem and the Aqsa.”
He stressed Khader Habib, a leader of the movement during a demonstration organized by his movement in the city of Gaza, that “Jerusalem is not and will be only the capital of Palestine and Israel is the usurping entity is to disappear.”
Habib called on the Arab nation to stand with the Palestinian people and support its resistance and its people with all forms of material and moral support.
The Palestinian territories have been under constant tension since the US president announced on the 6th of this month that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and the transfer of its embassy to Israel.
Sixteen Palestinians were killed in the protests, 14 of them in clashes with the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while the other two were killed in an Israeli raid.
