March 31, 2017

IDF troops violently disperse Palestinians, Israelis, and international activists at Friday demonstrations against Israel’s occupation, separation wall, and settlements in 3 villages nr. Ramallah (Nabi Salih, Bil‘in, and Ni‘lin) and Kafr Qaddum nr. Qalqilya; 4 Palestinians are injured. Later in the day, IDF troops shoot and injure a Palestinian youth after he throws a Molotov cocktail at a settler’s car driving nr. Ni‘lin. They seal the village after the incident. Elsewhere in the West Bank, IDF troops arrest a Palestinian in c. Hebron when he is found to be carrying a knife, and patrol nr. Jenin and Hebron. (MNA, TOI 3/31; MNA 4/1; PCHR 4/6)