Israeli forces have injured four Palestinians by firing rubber bullets at a group of people protesting in the West Bank.
The Palestinian territories were the scene of violent clashes on Friday as Israeli forces engaged in street battles with stone-throwing Palestinians.
Muhammad Awad, the spokesman for a local popular resistance committee, said that one of the injured was shot in the chest and the right foot, while the two others were wounded in the hand and the back in Beit Ummar near the city of Hebron.
In a separate incident, a Palestinian man was seriously injured after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops in the village of Belin, west of the city of Ramallah.
Israeli forces also detained at least 21 Palestinians in pre-dawn raids in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Tensions have been running high in the past few weeks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the recent killing of a Palestinian minister in the West Bank.
The al-Aqsa compound, which lies in Old Jerusalem, is a flashpoint. The location of the compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is the holiest site in Judaism. The al-Aqsa mosque is Islam’s third-holiest site after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
