Israeli police have violently confronted members of the Syrian Druze community in the occupied Golan Heights, wounding people during a second day of demonstrations against a wind farm being built on their agricultural land.
Israel's Energix Renewable Energies plans to build $190m worth of wind turbines in orchards near the Syrian Druze towns of Majdal Shams and Masada in the northern Golan Heights.
On Tuesday, Druze demonstrators blocked roads and burned mattresses and tyres near the project, waving the Druze flag. The Israeli police responded by firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons.
Demonstrations and the police crackdown continued on Wednesday, with several protesters sustaining injuries. That included a young man who was hit in the eye by a rubber-coated metal bullet, local activists told Middle East Eye.
"Today we had two rounds of violent confrontations with the occupation forces who carried out full scale raids with all its equipment," Sedqi Almaqt, an activist and former prisoner from the Golan, told MEE on Wednesday from protests outside a police station in Masada.
