At least 10 Palestinians were reported injured Thursday in violence in the administered territories related to the fifth anniversary of the intifada.
Some of the injured were school students, hurt in a clash with Israeli troops in Jenin. Three Gazans were reported hurt by rubber bullets. And one man was shot and lightly injured but managed to flee an incident at a-Ram, near Jerusalem.
On Wednesday, a border police unit shot and killed a young Palestinian stone- thrower in the village of Silat el-Harthiya, near Jenin. Other Israel Defense Force units in Jericho and Nablus were attacked with Molotov cocktails, and a soldier was injured in a rock-throwing incident near Ramallah.
But overall, army sources characterized the two-day period as relatively quiet.
They emphasized that the entire Gaza Strip had been closed off from Israel proper and would remain so for several more days.
The refugee camps within the strip are under curfew. The IDF reinforced its presence throughout the territories in anticipation of an anniversary-related escalation of violence.
On the whole, Israeli officials seemed to feel the violence was less intense and widespread than had been feared.
Still, the deaths of three soldiers in Gaza at the beginning of the week overshadowed any such relative relief.
That fatal ambush of the three reservists has plunged the country into a new round of self-questioning over the future of the territories, and especially of the Gaza Strip.
Some Knesset members in the governing coalition have called for a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, as have some media commentators.
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