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Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli forces across occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday night following three days of violent clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Sources told Ma'an that clashes erupted in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods and villages of al-Issawiya, al-Tur, Shuafat refugee camp, Silwan, Sur Bahir, and al-Sowwana.

Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, a local committee member in al-Issawiya, told Ma'an that clashes broke out in Issawiya after Israeli forces chased and shot at two Palestinians, injuring one and detaining the other.

Abu al-Hummus said that during the ensuing clashes, Israeli forces raided the village and sprayed foul-smelling skunk water on the streets and on one of the village's mosques.

He said that a 13-year-old girl, Saly Yousif Muhessien, who was in a nearby park, was injured when she was hit by a rubber-coated steel bullet in her neck.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767630

Palestinian attempts attack on Israeli police patrol in Issawiya

As tensions continue to flare in occupied East Jerusalem, an Israeli police patrol in the Issawiya neighborhood was attacked by a "masked Arab holding petrol bomb," Israeli police said.

Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an that a Palestinian approached the group of police with the intent of throwing the petrol bomb from close range. The officers fired a warning shot into the air before firing directly at the suspect.

Rosenfeld said that locals removed the suspect from the scene and that police were currently searching the for the man, adding that the area was currently "relatively calm."

No injuries of the officers were reported and heightened security continues in the area, the spokesperson said, with extra police deployed in and around neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem.

The incident was the latest in a string of violence in the Israeli-occupied area, as clashes continued for the third day in a row at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767653

Israel declares war on stone throwers

Clashes at Al Aqsa and the death of Alexander Levlovitz this week prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to convene an emergency security meeting on Tuesday night.

At the meeting, Netanyahu pushed for new legislation to further criminalise stone-throwing in light of the recent flareup of clashes in Jerusalem. Netanyahu envisions a more punitive approach to stone-throwing to include establishing a minimum punishment, fining parents whose children throw stones, and lowering the standard for when Israeli forces may use live fire against stone-throwers.

In a statement following the meeting, Netanyahu promised that stone-throwing will be “met with a fierce punitive and deterring response.”

The criminalization of stone-throwers will disproportionately affect Palestinians, particularly Palestinian children, as stone-throwing is a common way to protest the heavily militarised Israeli occupation.

Already, each year multiple Palestinian children are shot with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets by Israeli forces for throwing stones, and Israeli troops arrest Palestinian children to an alarming degree.

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Palestinian detainee Muhammad Allan restarts hunger strike

Palestinian detainee Muhammed Allan restarted a hunger strike Wednesday after Israel arrested him and reinstated his internment without trial, his lawyer said, with a previous such protest having lasted two months and brought him near death.

"He is currently on hunger strike," lawyer Jamil al-Khatib told AFP.

Israeli police said earlier that Allan was arrested Wednesday morning at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon where he was being held.

The head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society,Qadura Fares, said that Israeli authorities had reinstated Allan's administrative detention -- imprisonment without trial or charge -- against which the prisoner undertook a 66-day hunger strike to protest.

He said that the Israeli authorities intended for Allan to see out the 6-month administrative detention order he was sentenced to in May, which will last until Nov. 4.

However, he added: "It doesn't mean he will be released then."

Allan's administrative detention was initially ordered by Israeli officials who claimed that he constituted a threat to security and was an activist in the Islamic Jihad group, according to prisoners' rights group Addameer.