A 27-year-old Palestinian youth on Saturday succumbed to his serious wounds sustained in Nabi Saleh village, near Ramallah, on Friday during a peaceful protest march against the separation wall.
Mustafa Al-Tamimi was hit with a gas grenade in his head from a ten-meter distance fired by the Israeli occupation forces.
Local sources said that Tamimi lost a lot of blood and the IOF soldiers intercepted the car that was carrying him to hospital for half an hour before allowing him to proceed to an Israeli hospital where he was declared dead on Saturday.
IOF troops violently cracked down on the peaceful marchers, eyewitnesses pointed out, adding that six other citizens were injured in the quelling.
They said that a Palestine TV cameraman was hit with a rubber bullet in his abdomen, another had his foot broken when a gas canister hit it, a third was hit with a rubber bullet, and the arm of a young woman was broken when another canister hit it, while two others were hit with rubber bullets one in his ear and the other in his foot.
In a similar violent quelling of a peaceful demonstration in Bilin village, a journalist, along with tens of local and foreign solidarity activists, were treated for breathing problems and many of them vomited.
In Kufr Qaddoum and Ma’sara villages, the IOF soldiers used rubber bullets and
chemical waste to disperse the anti-wall rallies in addition to beating up the participants.
