"In an overnight operation in East Jerusalem, police and Border Police arrested 21 (Palestinians) suspected for disturbance," a police spokesperson said in a statement.
The official Palestinian new agency WAFA reported that 19 of the detainees were minors.
Jerusalem District Police Commander, Brigadier General Avshalom Peled, told Israel Radio that hundreds of policemen were deployed near the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, after a week of repeated clashes between Palestinians and the police.
He said that most of the violence is not directed at civilians but at the police. "Most of the incidents of stone throwing and Molotov cocktail throwing occur against security forces," Peled said, adding that the incidents are being "contained and handled within East Jerusalem."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that measures against Palestinian stone-throwers in Jerusalem will be further toughened, including new rules allowing live sniper fire against them, heavier penalties and mandatory minimum sentences.
The wave of Palestinian unrest began on Sept. 13 as Israeli security forces stormed in the al-Aqsa mosque compound to prevent Palestinian youth from harassing far-right Jews, who wished to visit the site on the occasion of the Jewish New Year.
The site is holy to Muslims and Jews. Palestinians see these visits as a provocation.
Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
21/9/15
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Israeli-Palestinian tensions run high in West Bank ...
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Palestinian security officials named him as Dia al-Talahmeh and said he was shot dead by Israeli troops.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said he had been killed by a makeshift bomb he had been preparing to throw at the patrol but did not say whether or not the troops had opened fire.
The spokeswoman said the patrol had been deployed to clear stones blocking a road outside the flashpoint city of Hebron.
“The soldiers heard an explosion and during a search of the sector they found the body of a Palestinian killed by the explosive device he intended to throw at one of our vehicles,” she said.
Separately on Tuesday morning, Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian woman at a checkpoint near the centre of Hebron, witnesses said. The Israeli military said she had attempted to stab a soldier.
"An attack was thwarted when a Palestinian attempted to stab an (Israeli) soldier at a military position in Hebron," an army statement said.
"(Israeli) forces responded, fired towards the perpetrator and identified a hit."
Tensions have been running high across the West Bank, including Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, ahead of the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday which begins at sundown on Tuesday.
The Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday begins on Wednesday evening and continues until Sunday.
Israel has deployed thousands of extra police in east Jerusalem and closed it off from the rest of the West Bank.
AFP
alarabiya.net
22/9/15