Israeli police arrested on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, October 13, several Palestinians involved, according to them, in violent clashes in East Jerusalem between security forces and Palestinian rioters.
Nine suspects have been arrested, police said in a statement.
In total, "
23 suspects, residents of East Jerusalem
" have been arrested since Wednesday "
for violations of public order, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and attacking police officers
", according to the same source.
Strikes and demonstrations
Palestinians staged strikes and demonstrations in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, on Wednesday to protest Israeli measures imposed following the killing of two soldiers in attacks in recent days.
On Saturday, Israeli soldier Noa Lazar was killed at a roadblock in Chouafat, a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem, the eastern part of Jerusalem occupied in 1967 by Israel and then annexed.
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The army and the police have launched a manhunt to find the perpetrator of the attack, and surround the Chouafat camp in particular.
Clashes broke out in the camp on Wednesday between heavily armed Israeli forces and Palestinians who threw stones at them.
According to Kazem Abou Khalaf, a spokesperson for the UN agency for aid to Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), the tightened control at the entrances to the camp and the violence have led to the closure of schools and health centers in the agency in Chouafat.
"
The situation there is really tense
," he told AFP.
“
We have many injuries from rubber bullets and tear gas inhalation
,” Munib al-Qutob, a rescue worker in Shuafat, told AFP.
Clashes also occurred in the neighborhoods of Issawiya and Silwan and two police officers were slightly injured, the police continued, declaring that they had reacted "
with means of dispersal of demonstrations
".
Hundreds of deaths on the Palestinian side
On Tuesday evening, an Israeli soldier was killed in a new attack near Nablus in the northern West Bank.
In the wake of deadly anti-Israeli attacks in March and April, the Israeli army stepped up operations and arrests in the West Bank.
These raids, often interspersed with clashes with the Palestinian population, left more than a hundred dead on the Palestinian side, the heaviest toll in the West Bank for nearly seven years, according to the UN.
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On Wednesday, an 18-year-old Palestinian man was killed by the Israeli army during clashes in the Al-Aroub refugee camp, near Hebron, a major city in the southern West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. And on Thursday, the Israeli army said it had arrested six people wanted for terrorist activities in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent has reported two wounded in the village of Kafr Dan, located near Jenin.
