About 300 Palestinians were injured during clashes on Saturday evening with the Israeli occupation army in the towns of Burqa and Bazaria in the northern West Bank, one of them seriously.
The director of ambulance and emergency in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Nablus governorate, Ahmed Jibril, said that the society's crews dealt with 247 injuries, during the confrontations in the town of Burqa, northwest of the city of Nablus.
He added that the distribution of injuries was as follows: "10 injuries from live bullets, one of which came to the abdomen from the back, and 48 injuries from rubber bullets, two of which were taken to the hospital."
He added that 185 cases of tear gas suffocation and 4 falls (as a result of stalking) were recorded, in addition to the evacuation of a pregnant woman in case of childbirth from her home as a result of inhaling the gas.
For its part, the official Palestine TV said that two of its reporters were injured while covering the events in Cyrenaica.
In a separate statement, the Red Crescent Society said that its crews also dealt with 54 injuries in the village of Bazaria, northwest of Nablus.
The statement added that the injuries were as follows: "9 with rubber bullets, 43 with gas, one fall and one burn."
For its part, the official Palestinian news agency "Wafa" reported that it was decided to suspend school hours on Sunday, in the town of Burqa, north of Nablus.
It quoted the Director of Education in Nablus, Tariq Alawneh, as saying that the decision came "in line with the current situation in the town of Barqa, which is represented by the continued attacks of the occupation army and its settlers against the citizens."
On Saturday evening, the entrance to the village of Burqa witnessed confrontations with the Israeli army, in conjunction with calls by settler groups for a return march to the settlement of Homesh, which was evacuated in 2005 and was established on the village’s lands.
In a brief statement on its Facebook account, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s “Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee” said, on Saturday evening, that “the occupying usurping entity officially announces the cancellation of the march of the colonizers’ gangs.”
The last week witnessed an escalation in the Israeli settlers' attacks on a number of Palestinian villages in the Nablus governorate.
About 666,000 Israeli settlers are distributed in 145 large settlements and 140 random outposts (not licensed by the Israeli government) in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to data from the Israeli human rights movement Peace Now.