Israeli forces attacked today dozens of Palestinian activists during the weekly protest in Kafr Qaddum village, near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, resulting in injuring 18 Palestinians.

The activists protested against the Israeli colonial settlements, demanding the Israeli authorities to open the village road which has been sealed off for more than 17 years.

The coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, Morad Shtewi, said that tens of the Israeli soldiers raided the village and the roof of the houses, and they fired rubber-coated rounds and teargas at the protesters, injuring 18 of them and causing many cases of suffocation from gas inhalation.