Eight Palestinian youths were injured by rubber bullets fired by Israeli troops Tuesday after several demonstrators threw stones at a checkpoint near El-Khader village in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, said reports.
Dozens of Palestinian youths came under fire after attacking the checkpoint at the southern entrance to the village, said the agency, adding that the youths were protesting the closure of Bethlehem imposed by Israel on Monday after the murder of a Jewish settler close to the nearby settlement of Neve Daniel.
Meanwhile, Haaretz newspaper reported that police still did not have any clear leads in the murder of Yitzhak Kvartash, the security officer at Kibbutz Menara on the northern border with Lebanon.
The police, who ruled out the possibility that Kvartash was killed in a cross-border raid from Lebanon, also did not have any leads regarding the whereabouts of some 60 M-16 rifles which were stolen from the kibbutz’s armory, said the paper.
Police are hoping that the results of an autopsy performed on Kvartash’s body will provide them with new information in the case, specifically the time and nature of his death.
One possibility that has been raised is that Kvartash was killed by Palestinians seeking guns, according to the paper -- Albawaba.com
