Issa Amr, a member of the "Youth Against Occupation" group which organizes the rally, said that dozens of activists were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canister Israeli soldiers fired against the protesters.
Amr said that Israeli soldiers attacked Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, a Palestinian lawmakers and secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative. He said the Israeli soldiers tried to arrest Al-Barghouthi.
The activist said that Hebron Gov. Kamil Hmaid, member of Fatah's Central Committee Jamal Muhaisen, representatives of Palestinian political factions and dozens of Israeli activists from the human rights organization Breaking the Silence participated in the rally.
Al-Shuhada Street in Hebron also has been closed to Palestinians by Israeli forces since February 1994, when the extreme-rightist Jew Baruch Goldstein, burst into the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in the city, where he shot and killed 29 Muslims while praying during Ramadan, and wounded over 100 people.
