Protesters seriously wounded in Kafr Kanna police violence

A number of Palestinian demonstrators were seriously wounded in Kafr Kanna on Friday evening after being shot by live ammunition and rubber bullets by Israeli police and army forces that stormed the town to arrest the leader of the banned Israeli northern Islamic Movement, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, according to a report by the local Arab48 website. 

According to the website, Israeli forces, using live and rubber bullets, wounded dozens of young men who arrived to demonstrate in the vicinity of Sheikh Khatib's house.

The wounded were swiftly referred to hospitals in Nazareth for treatment.

Israeli police have arrested dozens of young Palestinian men in several Israeli towns that have witnessed protests against the Gaza onslaught and al-Aqsa attacks and in solidarity with the people facing eviction from Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in Jerusalem.

The protest activities and marches continue in Palestinian towns in Israel for the fifth day in a row while the Israeli army continues its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip and armed Palestinian groups respond with more rocket barrages on Israeli settlements and towns in the South.