(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Bron July 12 (QNA) - Fierce clashes broke out across the West Bank late Friday and early Saturday between Israeli troops and young Palestinian men protesting the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip.
In Ramallah in the central West Bank Palestinian protestors on Saturday morning used rocks to block the road to an Israeli military base near the town of Sinjel in the north Ma'an news agency reported.
The protestors then clashed with Israeli troops who showered them with tear gas rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades. The young protestors responded with stones gas bombs and fireworks.
Also Saturday dozens of angry young Palestinian men attacked an Israeli military post in Tal al-Asour in the village of Kafr Malik north of Ramallah. The protestors threw several Molotov cocktails and fireworks at the post setting it ablaze. Israeli troops got out of their bunkers and started to extinguish the fire while other soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and tear-gas canisters at the protestors. (QNA)
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