WorldAL FAWWAR, AFP -Twenty-five Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers conducting searches in a refugee camp in the southern West Bank on Tuesday, Red Crescent medics said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the troops were conducting “activity to uncover weaponry” in the camp, when “dozens of Palestinians hurled IEDs (improvised explosive devices), blocks and rocks” at them. The Israeli army has been clamping down on Palestinian workshops manufacturing arms. The violence has killed 219 Palestinians, 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese, according to an AFP tally. Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, Israeli authorities say.

Source: Sunday Times August 16, 2016 11:26 UTC