Palestinians scuffle with Israeli troops in Jerusalem, West Bank
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2013-09-24
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STORY: Israeli security forces scuffled with dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Tuesday.
In the West Bank city of Hebron, a flashpoint of recent violence, dozens of Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers.
The army said soldiers at the site reacted with riot dispersal means as the youths were throwing stones.
Scuffles also erupted near Jerusalem's Old city walls, where hundreds of Palestinians held a demonstration waving Palestinian flags. An Israeli police spokesperson said that security forces dispersed 300 Palestinians following stone hurling. Two were arrested, he added.
An Israeli soldier was shot dead on Sunday during a Jewish festival in the West Bank city of Hebron, a hotbed of tensions where some 500 Israeli settler families live among 100,000 Palestinians.
He was the second Israeli serviceman killed since Friday by suspected Palestinian gunmen as tensions rise in the occupied
STORY: Israeli security forces scuffled with dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Tuesday.
In the West Bank city of Hebron, a flashpoint of recent violence, dozens of Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers.
The army said soldiers at the site reacted with riot dispersal means as the youths were throwing stones.
Scuffles also erupted near Jerusalem's Old city walls, where hundreds of Palestinians held a demonstration waving Palestinian flags. An Israeli police spokesperson said that security forces dispersed 300 Palestinians following stone hurling. Two were arrested, he added.
An Israeli soldier was shot dead on Sunday during a Jewish festival in the West Bank city of Hebron, a hotbed of tensions where some 500 Israeli settler families live among 100,000 Palestinians.
He was the second Israeli serviceman killed since Friday by suspected Palestinian gunmen as tensions rise in the occupied
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