Israeli forces have shot and injured nine Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank,Palestinian paramedics said the men were hit in the legs near the city of Ramallah.
Scores of Palestinians marched toward the Efrat settlement near Bethlehem to express their outrage over Tel Aviv’s expansion project, which would see more land taken away from the Palestinians in the village of al-Masaara.Israeli troops fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, witnesses said.The UN and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbids construction on occupied lands.The presence and continued expansion of these settlements has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.
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