A video broadcast on social networks shows a large bulldozer or excavator of the Israeli Army at the time he attacks Palestinian protesters with the stone blocks they had placed to block their way. The events were recorded on Friday afternoon during protests against the Donald Trump peace plan that were recorded in the West Bank population of Kafar Qaddum, located west of Nablus.
At least one person had to be hospitalized for the impact of one of the ashlars, while others, on the basis of inertia-propelled cars, reached at least two vehicles amidst the chaos generated in the Palestinian concentration due to the unusual response of the troops. The Palestinian news agency WAFA identified the wounded as television cameraman Mohammad Enaya, 28.
For years, Kafar Qaddum has been the usual scene of Palestinian protests against military occupation, checkpoints in access to Jewish populations and settlements erected since 1967. A 15-year-old Palestinian was hit on the head of a bullet covered in rubber that had been shot by the soldiers during a demonstration recorded on January 30.
The images show that several blocks of stone had been crossed in a street in the town to block the movements of military vehicles. The bulldozer bursts into the scene at high speed to remove obstacles and does not stop until a young man is overwhelmed by a limestone ashlar, of those used in the traditional construction of houses in the Holy Land. The images show, meanwhile, how the protesters stone the military machinery.
Because of the impulse caused by the excavator and the slope of the road, several blocks continue a hundred meters down the street, where a child is almost free from being hit, a Palestinian ambulance that has just arrived at the place suffers a strong impact and a tourism is rammed by one of the blocks projected by the bulldozer.
The Israeli Armed Forces assured the Haaretz newspaper that before “the stone barrier placed at the entrance of Kafar Qaddum during riots involving some 70 Palestinians stoning the soldiers (...) engineering means were used to remove the stones the road ”. The military spokesmen stressed that "while clearing the ground, there was a massive throw of stones" against the troops.