West Bank Palestinians die in fresh clashes – Middle East – Al Jazeera English

 

Israeli policemen arrest a Palestinian during clashes following Friday prayers in East Jerusalem [AFP]

Five Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, a day after mass protests over Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip which has killed more than 840 people.

Three other Palestinians were shot dead as Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in Beit Ummar, near Hebron. One of those killed reportely worked for the Defence for Children International charity.In the first shooting on Friday in Hawara, near Nablus, an Israeli settler shot dead an 18-year-old and injured three other Palestinians, sources told Al Jazeera. Two hours later at the same protest Israeli soldiers open fire, killing a 22-year-old.

An Israeli army spokeswoman had no comment on the incident in Beit Ummar, but said there had been “confrontations” between Israeli troops and Palestinians near Nablus “in which settlers were involved”

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12-hour humanitarian truce to begin at 04:00 GMT on Saturday to pause hostilities in Gaza.

Reports that Israel and Hamas have agreed to 12-hour ceasefire. There are reports that Israel and Hamas have agreed a 12-hour humanitarian truce to begin at 04:00 GMT on Saturday to pause hostilities in Gaza.   Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said his movement, together with all armed groups in Gaza, had agreed to the temporary ceasefire which he said was mediated by the United Nations, the Reuters news agency reported. Source : Al-Jazeera English

Crunch time for Gaza truce talks as death toll passes 800 on ‘Friday, 25 Jul, 2014’

Gaza/Jerusalem, Reuters—US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional proxies to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, threatening to spread Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed to the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

With Israel and Hamas-led Islamist fighters setting seemingly irreconcilable terms for a truce that mediators hope will begin by a Muslim festival next week, Kerry worked the phones from Egypt, while aides made clear his patience was limited.

The urgency was spurred on Thursday by the killing of 15 people as they sheltered at a UN-run school in the northern Gaza Strip, which local officials blamed on Israeli shelling.

Israel said its forces had come under attack from Palestinian guerrillas in the area of the school and that they had shot back. It accused Hamas of preventing any evacuation.

Gaza officials said Israeli strikes killed 19 people on Friday, including the head of media operations for Hamas ally Islamic Jihad and his son. They put the number of Palestinian deaths in 18 days of conflict at 808, most of them civilians.

In the occupied West Bank, where US-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas governs in uneasy coordination with Israel, some 10,000 demonstrators marched in solidarity with Gaza overnight—a scale recalling mass revolts of the past.

Protesters surged against an Israeli army checkpoint, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, and Palestinian medics said one was shot dead and 200 wounded when troops opened fire.

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