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Six Killed, Hundreds Wounded as Violence Rages Across West Bank
• AntiWar.com by Jason DitzGrowing tensions around Israel's actions at the al-Aqsa Mosque led to massive protests and violent crackdowns in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. This, and an attack on settlers believed to have been spill-over violence, hs left six people dead, three Palestinians and three Israelis.
Israel has been tightening its controls at the al-Aqsa Mosque, among the holiest sites in Islam, and the installation of metal detectors and turnstiles around the compound has fueled outrage across the Muslim world, and major protests across Palestine.
The first death today was an 18-year-old Palestinian killed by a settler in East Jerusalem. Israeli police and security forces killed two others in separate incidents, one in East Jerusalem and the other in an undisclosed location in the West Bank.