1 May 2011 - 19:30

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked and beat up foreign solidarity activists east of Qalqilia on Sunday for protesting the construction of a new wall surrounding a village.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked and beat up foreign solidarity activists east of Qalqilia on Sunday for protesting the construction of a new wall surrounding a village.

Local sources said that huge military bulldozers escorted by IOF troops started to build the wall surrounding the village of Ezbat Al-Tayeb east of Qalqilia on Sunday and were confronted by citizens and solidarity activists.

They said that the soldiers assaulted the activists, who were participating in a sit-in tent in the village, and four of them were injured including one who was hospitalized in moderate wounds.

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