Ramallah – Several Palestinians were injured by live and rubber-coated bullets in protests and confrontations with Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank on Friday. 

Local sources added that several others suffered from tear gas inhalation in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and Beita, in the south.

In the town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, a young man and a photojournalist Ihab Al-Alami were wounded by live ammunition, while others were hit by rubber-coated bullets. Dozens of others suffered from suffocation from tear gas.

Eyewitnesses said that clashes broke out in Beit Ummar after the Israeli army raid the town, wounding the two men in the thighs with live ammunition. The two men were evacuated to hospital.