(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) At least 66 Palestinians were injured Sunday as Israeli troops opened up with live fire, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse stone-throwing youth in clashes across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The confrontations began in the early morning in and around the cities of Nablus and Tulkarem and continued to rage into the later afternoon, a ministry statement said, adding that clashes also occurred in Ramallah.
The fiercest clashes took place at the flashpoint Huwara military checkpoint on the southern entrance to Nablus in the northern West Bank, where soldiers shot and wounded 45 people, 24 of whom were admitted to the Rafidya Public Hospital and the rest were rushed to other hospitals in the city, the Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, reported.
The health ministry also said Israeli forces shot 21 people in clashes in Tulkarem, west of Nablus, and all were admitted to the city's hospitals. Tensions have been high across the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip since the start of the month of October during which Israeli forces killed at least 23 Palestinians and injured more than 1,000.
Palestinian human rights groups called for prompt international intervention to stop the "dangerous escalation" by the occupation forces and Jewish settlers and investigate the killing of civilians.
They said in a statement that the events in the occupied Palestinian lands had escalated since the start of September, along with the stepped up storming of the Haram al Sharif Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem by right-wing Israeli officials and settlers.
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