{"id":2478,"date":"2017-06-20T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/new\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2017-07-12T21:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T21:10:41","slug":"west-bank-palestinians-die-in-fresh-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/west-bank-palestinians-die-in-fresh-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank Palestinians die in fresh clashes."},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first shooting on Friday in Hawara, near Nablus, an Israeli settler shot dead an 18-year-old\u00a0and injured three other Palestinians, sources told Al Jazeera. Two hours later at the same protest Israeli soldiers open fire, killing a 22-year-old.<\/p>\n

Two other Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli solders during a protest in Beit Ummar,\u00a0near Hebron. One of those killed reportely worked for the\u00a0Defence for Children International charity.<\/span><\/p>\n

An Israeli army spokeswoman had no comment on the incident in Beit Ummar, but said there had been “confrontations” between Israeli troops and Palestinians near Nablus “in which settlers were involved”.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0Israeli policemen arrest a Palestinian during clashes following Friday prayers in East Jerusalem [AFP]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Four killed near Hebron and Nablus on Friday as worst spate of West Bank protests in years continues for second day.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Israeli army radio reported that a woman settler opened fire in in the incident near Nablus.<\/p>\n

Protests were also reported in East Jerusalem after Friday prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We are with the resistance [in Gaza], and this is our way of resisting,” said Samir Natsheh, one of the worshippers praying on the street near Al-Aqsa mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The same Israeli government that is carrying out this aggression in Gaza is taking away our right to pray.”<\/span><\/p>\n

There were brief scuffles in Wadi al-Joz, an area north of the Old City.<\/span><\/p>\n

The protests on Friday came a day after two Palestinians were killed in mass protests in the occupied West Bank.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The funeral for one<\/span><\/a>, Mohammad Al Araj, 17,\u00a0was held in\u00a0Qalandia refugee camp.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation on Friday called\u00a0<\/span>for Palestinians to take to the streets to express their rage at the invasion of Gaza, calling it a “genocide”, and to offer a funeral prayer to those who had been killed on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palestinian activists and Israel media said the Thursday protests appeared to be the largest since the end of a 2000-2005 Palestinian uprising.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the first shooting on Friday in Hawara, near Nablus, an Israeli settler shot dead an 18-year-old\u00a0and injured three other Palestinians, sources told Al Jazeera. Two hours later at the same protest Israeli soldiers open fire, killing a 22-year-old. Two other Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli solders during a protest in Beit Ummar,\u00a0near Hebron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}