Several Palestinians suffocated from tear gas after Israeli occupation forces violently suppressed a peaceful protest near Mount Sabih in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, Palestinian Wafa agency reports.

Local sources reported that Israeli forces attacked participants while they were performing the weekly Friday prayer ahead of an anti-colonisation protest in Beita, which opposes the seizure of their land for settlement expansion. The protest is held every week in defiance of Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the area.

Israeli soldiers fired sound bombs and tear gas at the protesters, leading to confrontations and causing a number of residents to suffer from tear gas inhalation.