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At least two Israeli military soldiers have been injured in fierce clashes between Palestinians and regime forces after the latter raided a predominantly Arab neighborhood on the outskirts of the Old City of occupied al-Quds.
The Arabic-language Palestine Today news agency reported that Israeli troops stormed Silwan neighborhood late on Tuesday, triggering a violent confrontation.
A number of Palestinians, including children, suffered breathing difficulties after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces during the raid.
Two Israeli officers were also lightly wounded after local residents threw stones and objects at them, according to the Israeli Jerusalem Post daily newspaper.
Israeli forces later arrested a young Palestinian man as they broke into the al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard. Local sources identified the youth as Majd Kabha.
The development came as Israeli soldiers had physically assaulted and beaten a Palestinian worker to death near the separation barrier in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm hours earlier.
The 32-year-old Ahmad Harb Ayyad, who is from the Gaza Strip, came under fire from soldiers along with a group of other Palestinians while trying to cross the barrier to reach his workplace.
The group managed to get away from harm, but were then apprehended and beaten by Israeli soldiers, Palestinian sources said.
Ahmad was then taken to a Tuklarm hospital but due to the seriousness of his condition he was transferred to a hospital in the nearby city of Nablus, where he attained martyrdom shortly afterward.
His body was handed back to the family in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army via the Beit Hanoun Crossing, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the assassination as a crime, and placed the blame on the Israeli regime.
