Clashes erupted between the Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian youths in the West Bank after Friday prayers, as the movement continues against the Israeli attacks in Jerusalem and West Bank cities, and in the meantime the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the decision to expand settlements southeast of Bethlehem.
Al-Jazeera correspondent Sherine Abu Akle said that Palestinians took part in a demonstration in the Jabal Sabih area in the village of Beita, south of Nablus
In protest against the establishment of a new settlement outpost on one of the hills of the village, and the occupation forces fired tear gas canisters to disperse the demonstrators.
The correspondent quoted sources in the Palestine Red Crescent Society as saying that the occupation forces also fired live bullets at the demonstrators.
At the same time, a march - called by the Palestinian forces and factions - went from the center of Ramallah to the Beit El checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city, in protest against the ongoing Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank cities.
Activists also called for a protest march towards the lands of Wadi Qana in the town of Deir Istia, north of Salfit.
A protest against settler attacks there.
Quiet in Jerusalem
Meanwhile, calm reigned in occupied Jerusalem, where about 40,000 Palestinians participated in Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Al-Jazeera correspondent Elias Karam said that the prayer ended quietly and without any confrontations, and indicated that the occupation forces did not impose any restrictions on the entry of worshipers this Friday, but kept their regular forces on alert around Al-Aqsa and at the entrances to the Old City.
New settlement units
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the approval of the occupation authorities to build 560 new settlement units southeast of Bethlehem, with the aim of expanding the settlements established on the lands of Palestinian citizens there.
She said in a statement issued today that this decision "leads to the seizure of thousands of dunams and allocating them for the purposes of settlement expansion, isolating Palestinian villages and towns from one another and transforming them into scattered islands that sink in settlement surroundings, knowing that a group of settlers took control of an old building in the village two days ago." The Rashaida and turned it into a new outpost. "
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry considered that the credibility of the US administration, its president, Joe Biden, and its Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, "is at stake," because Israel "continues to embarrass them by escalating its settlement and aggression against our people."
She wondered how this administration would act about "Israel's continuous embarrassments to it?", And added, "What is it doing about these repeated Israeli tests and strong messages to everyone in the American Democratic Party concerned."