Approximately a hundred residents, joined by Israeli and international supporters, joined the weekly protest in the village of Kufr Qaddum this week.

The march proceeded from the center of the village towards the adjacent settlement of Kedumin, built on lands confiscated from the village. The army awaited near the roadblock, using an additional barbed wire obstacle to prevent the demonstrators from passing to their lands. Some soldiers were also stationed in the olive groves surrounding the road. The demonstrators stood behind the barbed wire obstacle, chanting slogans and singing songs, when the army started shooting volleys of tear-gas projectiles, some of them directly towards people. As the crowd was dispersing, soldiers proceeded into the village's populated area, continuing to shoot tear-gas projectiles, sound grenades and reportedly also live ammunition. Another army battalion besieged the village, by blocking all entrances, and continued shooting tear-gas canisters into the village.  As a response, some of the local youth threw stones at the army. After about an hour and a half residents reassembled and decided to end the protest. The soldiers then launched an impromptu checkpoint and inspected every car leaving the village.

Kufr Qaddum, a small town of 3,500 inhabitants, is situated in the northern West Bank, between Nablus and Qalqilya. Qaddum's total land area used to consist of nearly 19,000 dunams, of which 11,000 are now under total Israeli control. Village lands have been repeatedly confiscated to build and expand the settlement of Kedumim. The expansion of one the settlement's neighborhoods, Mitzpe Yishai, became relatively well-known when even the Israeli Civil Administration described land takeover as theft. Lands that were officially recognized as belonging to private owners in Qaddum were taken over in an orderly manner, without any official authorization. Furthermore, the village has been effectively besieged since the beginning of the Second Intifada, when the main and only entrance to the village was blocked by the army.