Palestinians Protest Killing of Mother of 5

Violence flared again Tuesday in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as Palestinians protested the killing of a mother of five by Israeli police.

But police said there were fewer protests compared to previous days and the only casualty was an Israeli motorist injured by stones while driving through the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Amayat Hindi, 35, was shot to death Monday in Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem, as she passed by an anti-Israeli riot. She reportedly had been looking for her children. Five other Palestinians were wounded.

In an apparent attempt to defuse tension in the West Bank, captured from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War, troops in Ramallah contained a demonstration Tuesday but avoided clashes with participants.

Police Fire Tear Gas

Soldiers also stood guard at a march in memory of Hindi by 500 students at the nearby militant Birzeit University but stayed off the campus, university officials said.

In Arab East Jerusalem, police fired tear gas at a crowd of about 70 youths and arrested four of them when they threw threw stones outside a girls’ school, police said.

Palestinian shopkeepers shut down their businesses in East Jerusalem and Ramallah, and most Arab schools in Jerusalem were closed, Palestinian sources said.

In the occupied Gaza Strip, captured from Egypt in the 1967 war, troops fired into the air to disperse Palestinians who set up makeshift barricades and burned tires, residents said.