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Israeli police kills Palestinian near Jerusalem

Xinhua, October 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Palestinian was shot dead on Thursday evening in clashes with Israeli police in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shu'fat near east Jerusalem, medics said.

Ahmed Bitawi, director of the Palestine medical center in Ramallah, told Xinhua that 20-year-old Wisam Farraj was killed after Israeli police shot him in the chest.

There is no immediate comment of the Israeli government on the incident.

Violent clashes flared in the West Bank and east Jerusalem for almost one week that has left seven Palestinians and four Israelis killed.

On Thursday evening, a Palestinian man stabbed a 20-year-old Israeli soldier and moderately wounded him in the chest in the northern Israeli town of Afula.It's the fourth Palestinian attack against Israelis in a single the day.

Police reached Shuafat on Thursday afternoon to search the home of a Palestinian who stabbed and seriously wounded a 25 year-old Jewish Orthodox man in Jerusalem.

Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with security forces, throwing stones and firebombs at them. Nine policemen were lightly injured in the incident. Palestinian medical sources said that dozens of local residents were injured in the clashes.

Earlier in the day, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) condemned the Israeli settlers' attack on its telecommunication minister near the West Bank city of Nablus.

Suleiman al-Zuheri, deputy minister of the telecommunication ministry, told Xinhua that a group of Israeli settlers attacked Telecommunication Minister Allam Musa while he was on his way home in Nablus.

He added that the settlers smashed the front window of Musa's car, and hit the minister with a stone. Musa has been taken to a hospital for treatment.

The PNA said in a statement that the attack on the minister "is condemned," which "shows that the settlers are targeting all the Palestinians, no matter if it is a minister or an ordinary citizen." Endit