While all eyes are focused on the bombing of Gaza, the occupation forces are launching a parallel campaign of attacks on the people of the West Bank and the Green Line, who rose up in support of Jerusalem and the Strip, and provided many martyrs and wounded during the past ten days.
Palestinian sources said that 27 citizens were killed in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem and inside the Green Line, and about 4,000 others were wounded, since the seventh of this month.
On a daily basis, residents of the West Bank governorates and the cities and towns of the Green Line engage in clashes with the occupation army, which confronts protesters with live bullets.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the general strike took place in the cities of the Green Line and the West Bank, including the Holy City, in response to popular and official calls "in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and rejecting the Israeli occupation."
The strike was supported by the Islamic and national forces and the Palestinian Authority, and it came in line with the call of the Higher Arab Follow-up Committee, which called for a general and comprehensive strike in the Palestinian center within the Green Line, "in response to the continuous Israeli aggression against our Palestinian people."
For its part, the Ministry of Health announced the death of 4 young men during clashes with Israeli soldiers yesterday.
The ministry added, in a statement, that two of the dead were killed during clashes at the northern entrance to Ramallah, after a march launched from the city center, in which thousands of citizens participated.
The march reached an Israeli military checkpoint north of Ramallah, and the participants carried Palestinian flags and chanted slogans in support of the resistance.
The Palestinian youths closed the road with burning tires, at a time when a large number of Israeli army personnel were stationed on a nearby hill in preparation for a possible confrontation with them.
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Hamza al-Bakri, a resident of Ramallah, said, "We answered this call because we see in this revolution that we are one hand and one people."
And the Ministry of Health returned to remember that the third martyr arrived at the Palestine Medical Complex with live bullets in the head, during clashes in Bil'in, west of Ramallah, between youths and the occupation forces.
She explained that the fourth martyr was wounded by army bullets in the occupied city of Hebron.
For its part, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said that its teams dealt with 156 injuries in the West Bank and Jerusalem, including 35 injuries with live bullets.
As for the Israeli army, it said that its members were shot at at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh, noting that two of its members were lightly wounded.
In the Holy City, Israeli police forces dispersed a youth gathering at the Damascus Gate, and activists said that they threw stun grenades and rubber bullets and sprayed stagnant water towards the demonstrators.
The Israeli police confirmed the arrest of 13 demonstrators in each of Bab al-Amud, Sheikh Jarrah, the Old City and the Shuafat neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem.