Tulkarm: At least 15 Palestinians were injured on Friday when the Israeli army fired live bullets and tear gas shells at a peaceful protest in Tulkarm, northern occupied West Bank, against the construction of a new illegal settlement outpost east of the city. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams treated individuals injured during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian demonstrators in the town of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, where stones were thrown in response to the military's actions.

According to Anadolu Agency, eyewitnesses described how Israeli soldiers attacked the protest in Beit Lid and Kafr Qaddum, using bullets and tear gas to disperse participants. The confrontation followed a call for a prayer gathering by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, municipalities, the Fatah movement, and various resistance factions on the lands of Al-Duweir area in Beit Lid, opposing attempts by illegal Israeli settlers to establish a new outpost on Kafr Qaddum lands.

Witnesses noted that the Israeli army pursued activists and supporters through nearby agricultural fields after they held Friday prayers near the settlement outpost. In addition, Palestinian activists documented acts of vandalism by illegal settlers on olive trees in the Susiya area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, with videos showing settlers breaking and damaging the trees.

Authorities highlighted that over 1,068 Palestinians have been killed, 10,000 wounded, and more than 20,000 arrested, including 1,600 children, in the occupied West Bank since the Israeli onslaught in the Gaza Strip began two years ago. In a significant ruling last July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory illegal, urging the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.