25 Palestinians Wounded in Clashes with Israel Army
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Twenty-five Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers in a refugee camp in the southern West Bank Tuesday, Red Crescent medics said.
Some of the wounded had been hit by live ammunition, others by rubber bullets, the medics said.
The clashes erupted when a large convoy of Israeli military vehicles entered Al-Fawwar camp, near the flash-point city of Al Khalil (Hebron), witnesses said.
Troops conducted searches and destroyed the wall of a house in the camp, which is home to some 10,000 people.
The clashes continued until around noon local time, an AFP photographer reported.
The army closed off the Fawwar camp for 26 days last month after a gunman fired on an Israeli car on a nearby road causing a crash that killed the driver.
The Al Khalil area has been one of the main focuses of a wave of deadly unrest since last October.
The violence has killed 219 Palestinians, 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese, according to an AFP tally.
