Jerusalem (AFP)

"The eyes of the truth will never be blinded" wrote on posters of Palestinian journalists wearing eye patches during a Sunday march in support of one of their colleagues stranded during a demonstration in the West Bank.

Mouaz Amarneh, a 32-year-old freelancer, was wounded last Friday in the left eye during a protest in the village of Sourif, near Hebron, in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank.

This demonstration against the confiscation of lands turned to the confrontation with the Israeli border police.

"I was standing aside from the clashes, I was wearing a bullet-proof jacket and a helmet," Amarneh told AFP on Sunday from Israel's Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, claiming he was targeted by what he said. he thinks he is Israeli fire.

"Suddenly, I felt that something had hit my eye, I thought it was a stone or a rubber ball, so I wanted to feel my eye, but I did not find anything. could not see and there was nothing left in the orbit, "he added.

In support of Mouaz Amarneh, Palestinian journalists marched Sunday in Bethlehem and Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, some with an eye patch on their faces and a banner reading in Arabic and English: "Stop targeting journalists. "

Journalists had also written "the eyes of the truth will never be blinded" on various posters held during a demonstration at a checkpoint north of Bethlehem that was dispersed by the Israeli police.

Seven people were slightly injured during the demonstration, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

According to the Palestinian Union of Journalists, 60 journalists have been hit by live ammunition in the Palestinian Territories since the beginning of the year, the majority of them in the Gaza Strip.

According to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, Amarneh "was not targeted at all".

"The police faced dozens of rioters, some masked who threw stones and burnt tires on police officers who used non-lethal means to disperse," said Rosenfeld in a statement. .

The doctors told Amarneh that a metal fragment of about 2 cm, which could be a non-lethal projectile burst, had pierced his left eye to lodge behind the orbit near his brain.

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