(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) A number of Palestinians were suffocated on Sunday when clashes broke out with the Israeli occupation forces in Beit Ummar town in Hebron south of the West Bank.
The coordinator of the Popular Committee against Settlement in the town, Mohammed Awad, said that the clashes erupted after the Israeli soldiers set up military barriers in the Safa and Aseda areas in Beit Ummar.
During the confrontations, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades toward the Palestinians causing many of them to suffocate , the Palestinian official added.
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