JERUSALEM, Oct 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians broke out across the West Bank and East Jerusalem yesterday, killing another Palestinian youth.
The Israeli police said in a statement that, “hundreds” of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in several neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem. The troops fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse them.
The clashes broke out in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp, where Israeli troops continued the manhunt for an alleged killer, who shot dead an Israeli soldier, at a checkpoint in the camp on Saturday, as well as, in the neighbourhoods of Al Issawiya, Silwan, A-Tor, Ras Al Amud, Jabal Mukabar, Tzur Bahr and Beit Hanina.
Protests also erupted in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, where at least two Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire, according to Palestinian media reports.
In the morning, the Israeli military said in a statement that, it imposed a partial closure on Nablus, and closed major routes because of “increased security operations” in the area, during a hunt for two Palestinian militants who shot, on Tuesday, an Israeli soldier, who was securing a settler march, outside the settlement of Shavei Shomron, west of Nablus.
This was the latest escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli tension in the West Bank, a territory seized by Israel in the 1967 war. Israel has kept its control over the land despite the Palestinian struggle for independence and international condemnation.
