(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Three Palestinian schoolchildren were injured and dozens of people suffered breathing problems Tuesday when Israeli troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas during clashes in a refugee camp near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian sources.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that soldiers took up positions near a school in the Al Arroub refugee camp and fired metal-coated rubber bullets and gas canisters on students, who pelted them with stones. It said medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society had treated dozens on the spot for gas inhalation. The agency said similar confrontations erupted in Bab al Zawiyeh in the Hebron commercial district, where several Palestinians were injured.
Soldiers also beat a 23-year-old with rifle butts at the entrance of the town of Beit Ummar near the flashpoint city of Hebron in the southern West Bank, said Mohammad Awad, spokesman of the local Popular Committee for Resisting Settlements. Earlier in the day, Israeli occupation forces arrested about 40 Palestinians during sweeps in about half a dozen Palestinian towns.
The army had arrested more than 1,000 Palestinians in daily sweeps across the West Bank since the current wave of violence erupted in early October, including knife attacks and shooting incidents in which 80 Palestinians and 12 Israelis were killed.
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