Two Palestinians killed in anti-US protests
 

GAZA: Israeli troops shot dead at least two Palestinians on Friday, a Gaza health official said, as protests intensified against Washington´s recognition of Occupied al-Quds as Israel´s capital.

A UN General Assembly resolution passed on Thursday, rejecting US President Donald Trump´s Dec 6 Occupied al-Quds declaration, did little to calm Palestinian anger over his reversal of decades-old US policy on the contested holy city.

Instead, thousands of Palestinian protesters, many of them throwing rocks, confronted Israeli security forces along the Gaza border fence, in all of occupied West Bank´s seven cities and in East Occupied al-Quds.

In Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, smoke from burning tyres billowed in the street, just two days before Christmas celebrations. Israeli gunfire killed two Palestinians in a confrontation in the southern Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the Palestinian Health Ministry said, putting the number of wounded at 40, half of them shot with live ammunition and the rest with rubber bullets. Others were overcome by tear gas.

In a statement, the Israeli military said some 2,000 Palestinians had faced off against the troops at the Gaza border fence. It said the crowd threw stones and rolled burning tyres at soldiers, who responded with ?riot dispersal? measures and ?fired live rounds selectively towards main instigators?.

Protesters chanted ?Trump is a coward. Trump is a fool?. Among the wounded was a man dressed as Santa Claus. Palestinian health officials said at least one Palestinian suffered a live bullet wound in the West Bank and some 30 protesters were hit by rubber bullets. The military, putting the number of demonstrators at about 1,700 and the injured at six, said troops faced firebombs, rocks and burning tyres.

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