Israel: Palestinians arrested after clashes in East Jerusalem

Israeli police during clashes with protesters near the Chouafat refugee camp, October 13, 2022. © Mahmoud Illean / AP

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Israeli police arrested several Palestinians overnight from Wednesday to Thursday who they believe were involved in violent clashes in East Jerusalem between security forces and Palestinian rioters.

Nine suspects have been arrested, police said in a statement.

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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.

The army and the police launched a manhunt to find the perpetrator of the attack and surrounded the

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Tense situation in the Chouafat camp, according to Unrwa

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.

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Clashes also occurred in Issawiya and Silwan neighborhoods and two police officers were lightly injured, police said.

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.

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 large 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.

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