RAMALLAH/GAZA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday in clashes with Israeli soldiers during protests in the West Bank against the Israeli government's annexation plan, medical sources said.
The sources told Xinhua that Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse dozens of Palestinian protesters on the outskirts of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The soldiers' gunfire wounded several demonstrators and dozens got suffocated after they inhaled tear gas, they said.
The National Commission to Resist the Wall and Settlements organizes weekly protests and demonstrations against the Israeli confiscation of lands in the West Bank.
Walid Assaf, head of the commission, told Xinhua that protesters will carry on peaceful demonstrations against the Israeli decision to build up a settlement post on the top of Mount Ebal in Nablus.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organized a march in Gaza city against the Israeli plan to annex parts of the West Bank and the Israeli measures in East Jerusalem.
Khader Habib, one of the group's leaders, told reporters that the Islamic Jihad warns Israel not to close Bab al-Rahma gate in East Jerusalem and turn it into a synagogue. Enditem
