Jerusalem/Gaza - Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians in protests in Gaza on Friday and

Jerusalem/Gaza - Israeli troops shot dead five
Palestinians in protests in Gaza on Friday and a
knife-wielding Jewish man wounded four Arabs in
southern Israel in a wave of violence that has
fuelled talk of a new uprising against Israeli
occupation.
A blood-covered hand of a Palestinian during
clashes at Nahel Oz border in the east of Al
Shejaeiya neighbourhood in the eastern Gaza Strip.
At least five Palestinian youths were killed during
clashes with Israeli troops a long the border
between Israel and eastern Gaza Strip. EPA/
MOHAMMED SABER.
(Credit: EPA)
The Israeli soldiers shot across the border into
Gaza after the Palestinians came too close to the
frontier, throwing stones and rolling burning tyres,
an Israeli army spokeswoman said. Gaza medics
said five people were killed and 30 wounded.
The protests were in solidarity with Palestinians
protesting in Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied
West Bank, where tensions have surged in 10 days
of violence in which four Israelis and at least eight
Palestinians have been killed.
Palestinians have been angered by events at the al-
Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City
and fear Israel wants to change the status quo at
the holy site, revered by Muslims as the Noble
Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
denied wanting to change conditions under which
Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim
prayer is banned, but his assurances have done
little to quell alarm among Muslims across the
region.
The violence is not of the intensity of two
Palestinian uprisings in the late 1980s and early
2000s but the attacks have prompted talk of a third
“intifada”.