Dozens Hurt in Bethlehem Clashes

The worst single day of Israeli-Palestinian clashes in months left nearly four dozen people injured, and the Palestinian Cabinet rebuffed Israel’s proposal for a limited troop pullback. In the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli troops fought from noon until dusk with rubber bullets, tear gas and stones in the shadow of the Jewish shrine of Rachel’s Tomb. Elsewhere in the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians staged rallies that mainly were peaceful but featured angry rhetoric and menacing imagery.