Several Palestinians today suffocated by tear gas as Israeli forces violently suppressed the peaceful anti-settlement weekly march in the town of Beit Dejan to the east of Nablus, said local sources. Forces attacked the march with rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades, causing at least 15 people to suffocate from tear gas inhalation, according to sources at the Palestinian Red Crescent. Heading calls by the people's committee for the defense of land in Beit Dejan, the Commission against the Wall and settlement, and the Factional Coordination Committee in Nablus, Participants in the rally also rallied in defense of land threatened with confiscation by the Israeli authorities in the said town. Palestinians there have been protesting against the theft of Palestinian land for the benefit of settlement expansion.
Source: En - Palestine news & Information Agency - WAFA