15 Palestinians injured in an Israeli army attack on a protest in Tulkarm.

Fifteen Palestinians were injured on Friday after the Israeli army attacked a peaceful demonstration in the city of Tulkarm in the northern occupied West Bank, in protest against the establishment of a settlement outpost east of the city, using live ammunition and tear gas.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated in a statement that its teams dealt with 15 injuries during clashes that erupted with stones between the Israeli army and Palestinian demonstrators in the town of Beit Lid east of Tulkarm.

It clarified that among the injuries, one was from live ammunition, another from rubber-coated metal bullets, and 12 from cases of suffocation.

A reporter indicated that the Israeli army attacked a demonstration organized on the lands of the towns of Beit Lid and Kafr Qaddum east of Tulkarm, firing bullets and gas to disperse the participants.

Eyewitnesses reported that the army pursued activists and supporters in the nearby agricultural fields after they performed Friday prayers near the settlement outpost.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, along with the municipalities of Kafr Qaddum and Beit Lid, the "Fatah" movement, and popular resistance factions and committees, had called for performing Friday prayers on the lands of the Al-Dweir area in Beit Lid, in rejection of settlers' attempts to establish a settlement outpost on the neighboring lands of Kafr Qaddum.

In a related context, Palestinian activists documented a group of settlers breaking olive trees in the Susiya area of Masafer Yatta south of Hebron.

A video clip showed a group of settlers breaking the trees.

These assaults fall within a wide wave of Israeli escalation in the West Bank by the army and settlers that began concurrently with the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on October 8, 2023.

These assaults in the West Bank have resulted in the deaths of 1,068 Palestinians and injuries to about 10,000 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,000 Palestinians, including 1,600 children.

Meanwhile, the genocide that lasted for two years in Gaza left around 69,000 dead and more than 170,000 injured.