Israeli Troops, Students Clash
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HEBRON, Israeli-Occupied West Bank — Israeli soldiers Thursday fought stone-throwing Palestinian students who barricaded themselves inside a college building on the third straight day of violence in the occupied West Bank.
The clash followed a protest at Hebron’s Islamic University marking the fifth anniversary of massacres at the Sabra and Chatilla Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Palestinians also demonstrated in the West Bank towns of Ramallah and El Bireh and in the occupied Gaza Strip. The protesters erected stone barriers, burned tires and closed shops, news reports said.
In Hebron, students raised the outlawed red, green, black and yellow Palestinian flag. About 150 soldiers rushed to the college, fired shots and hurled tear-gas canisters into the university’s main yard to disperse the crowd, university spokesman Mukhlis Hammouri said.
He said the only person injured in the clash was a soldier who was hit in the hand with a rock. “Some students fainted from the gas but weren’t allowed to be taken to the hospital,” he said.
Students threw stones and cinder blocks at the soldiers, and about 350 barricaded themselves inside the main school building.
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