ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/CLASHES Palestinian youth clash with Israeli forces on "Day of Rage"

Record ID: 135220

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/CLASHES Palestinian youth clash with Israeli forces on "Day of Rage"
  • Date: 13th October 2015
  • Summary: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 13, 2015) (REUTERS) ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLE FIRING TEAR GAS ON AT PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS RUNNING FROM SMOKE OF TEAR GAS ISRAELI SOLDIERS AT SCENE, SOLDIER FIRING TEAR GAS VARIOUS OF MASKED PROTESTERS WITH PALESTINIAN FLAGS, BURNING TYRES AT SCENE FEMALE PROTESTER THROWING STONES CLOUDS OF TEAR GAS SMOKE PROTESTERS AN
  • Embargoed: 28th October 2015 12:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA3T06AWZ7M7IBH2EFPQ4QB6CA8
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Clashes erupted across the West Bank on Tuesday (October 13) after a string of attacks in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv on a "Day of Rage" declared by Palestinian groups.
    In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, masked Palestinian youth, waving Palestinian flags, burnt tyres and hurled stones at Israeli forces who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
    The clashes came after Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three people and wounded several others in a string of attacks in the worst unrest in years in Israel and the Palestinian territories showing no signs of abating.
    Palestinian youth hurled stones at Israeli forces who responded with rubber bullets and gas canisters to disperse the protesters near Qalandia checkpoint and the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near Ramallah.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a security cabinet meeting for 3 p.m. (1200 GMT) to discuss what police said would be new operational plans.
    Officials said Israel's public security minister was considering whether to seal off Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem, home of many of the assailants of the past two weeks, from the rest of the city.
    Unlike their brethren in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians in East Jerusalem can travel in Israel without restrictions. Israel annexed East Jerusalem after a 1967 war in a move that is not recognised internationally.
    The violence has been stirred in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, Islam's holiest site outside the Arabian Peninsula and revered by Jews as the site of two destroyed biblical temples and Judaism's holiest place.
    Israel has pledged to maintain Muslim prayer rights at al-Aqsa, and Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not allow any change to the status quo under which non-Muslim prayer is banned.
    The now-daily stabbings have raised speculation that Palestinians could be embarking on another uprising or intifada, reflecting a new generation's frustrations over their veteran leadership's failure to achieve statehood.
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