Palestinians killed in West Bank, Gaza

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Oday Ersheid, 22, was killed by live fire in Hebron.

Israeli military forces have killed three more Palestinians amid simmering tensions in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian youths clash with Israeli soldiers on December 11, 2015 in the occupied West Bank villag …

Separate clashes also erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Kafr Kadum and Silwad.

In early November, the Defense Ministry reopened the Gilboa Crossing north of Jenin, a day after it was shut following a series of Palestinian knife attacks.

Oudi Jihad Arsheed, 22, was shot dead during protests, the Palestinian health ministry said.

His sister Dania died in a case cited by Amnesty International as a possible extrajudicial killing in October.

Later in the evening, assailants shot at a vehicle near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, wounding two Israelis, the army said. The military said forces tried to disperse the riot with nonlethal means before firing “towards inciting characters”. “Pray, quickly, and instead of crying, weep over our scenario”.

‘The martyr is with God’.

On Friday, Jerusalem prosecutors indicted a 16-year-old Palestinian girl for attempted murder. Ersheid is the brother of high school student Dania Ersheid, who was shot dead by Israeli border police in late October in Hebron. The man was identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health as Issa Hroub, 55, from the nearby village of Deir Samet.

Since October 1, nearly daily attacks and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers have killed 115 on the Palestinian side, 17 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean. He was identified as Sami Maadi, 38. The soldiers responded with live fire, but the spokesperson could not confirm fatalities.

No Israelis were hurt in the attack Friday, during which Israeli troops shot and killed the driver, Army Radio reported.

The Israeli Security Agency, or Shin Bet, arrested the suspect with IDF and police officers in a West Bank village on Thursday night.

Since mid-September, Palestinians have killed 19 Israelis.

The violence spread to the Gaza Strip, controlled by Islamist group Hamas, where Palestinians massed at the fenced-off border with Israel on Friday, throwing rocks at troops beyond.

In the meantime, 20 Israelis were killed in a series of stabbing and shooting attacks carried out by Palestinians in the West Bank, Israel and east Jerusalem.

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