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Overnight clashes with Israeli soldiers in Azzun town

Saturday 16-June-2018

Violent clashes broke out on Friday night and continued into the early hours of Saturday between Palestinian young men and Israeli soldiers in Azzun town east of Qalqilya.

Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers engaged in skirmishes with local youths at the main entrance to Azzun town and showered them with a hail of tear gas and stun grenades to disperse them.

The sources added that several young men suffered from their exposure to tear gas fumes.

They also said that two young men identified as Abdul-Karim Hussein and Akram Salim were rounded up by soldiers at the main entrance to the town as they were passing by.

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