Video by Seth J. FrantzmanViolence broke out Thursday night near the Kalandia checkpoint, located in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Ramallah, as residents of the West Bank village clashed with police in protests against the IDF's operation in the Gaza Strip. Some 10,000 Palestinians protested near the checkpoint, throwing rocks, firebombs and fireworks at Israeli security forces, and setting tires ablaze. The IDF forces and Border Police were using crowd dispersal means on the masses. Hospital officials in Ramallah earlier said three protesters had been killed, but revised that to one killed and three others in critical condition and on life support. Some 200 protesters were injured, a hospital doctor said. Thirteen Israeli police officers were lightly injured.The IDF Spokesperson's Office did not immediately confirm the Palestinian casualties. The military was checking reports of live fire targeting Israeli forces at the checkpoint. The protest erupted after allies of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement marched from the West Bank city of Ramallah to the edges of Jerusalem in protest against Israel's 17-day-old campaign against Hamas militants in Gaza.By Friday morning Jerusalem Police said that 39 rioters had been arrested in the clashes overnight in Jerusalem, and that 27 police officers had been lightly hurt, including 10 Border Policemen and 200 Palestinians wounded.
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if(window.location.pathname.indexOf("656089") != -1){console.log("hedva connatix");document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";}The officers who were injured had been attacked by stone-throwers and rioters wielding sticks, pipes, and shooting fireworks at police, the Jerusalem District spokesman said. The injured officers were part of a force of around 4,000 police who had been deployed in East Jerusalem the Old City and the West Bank following what Jerusalem Police said Friday was prior intelligence they had accrued that there would be clashes on Thursday night as Muslims celebrated Laylat al-Qader, an important date in the month of Ramadan. Jerusalem Police said the violence inside the city started inside the alleyways of the Old City and from there spread to the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. Police credited their large deployment for containing the rioting in Arab neighborhoods, saying that otherwise it could have spilled over into the Jewish neighborhoods of west Jerusalem.