Israeli occupation forces suffocated, yesterday evening, Saturday, a number of Palestinians during confrontations, in the town of Burqa, north of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said that violent confrontations erupted at the entrance to the village of Burqa, between the Palestinians and the occupation soldiers, who fired live bullets and tear gas at them, causing a number of them to suffocate.

Meanwhile, the mosques of the town of Burqa called on the people to defend it against the attacks of settlers who were present at the entrance to the town under the protection of the occupation forces.