An-Najah News - Dozens injuredTuesday after Israeli occuaptioon forces attacked an anti-annexation protest near Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, southeast of Tubas, in the northern Jordan Valley.

Soldiers opened tear gas canisters and concussion grenades on protesters as the latter reached Tayaseer military checkpoint.

A large Israeli military force violently dispersed the participants of the rally organized against the Israeli occupation authorities’ plan to annex the site of the demolished village and the larger Jordan Valley.

four protesters sustained injuries after being directly hit with tear gas canisters in their feet and were treated at the scene. 

Two others sustained injuries after being struck with tear gas canisters in the head and the abdomen. Both cases were rushed to the hospital.

Israeli troops showered journalists with tear gas canisters at the scene as a means to prevent them from covering the events.