SPREADING CHAOS
An Israeli security forces jeep ignites after Palestinian protesters threw a Molotov cocktail at it during clashes near the Beit El settlement on the outskirts of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 17. The violence that has raged for more than two weeks prompted a “very concerned” US President Barack Obama to call for calm as the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting a day earlier. AFP PHOTO
An Israeli security forces jeep ignites after Palestinian protesters threw a Molotov cocktail at it during clashes near the Beit El settlement on the outskirts of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 17. The violence that has raged for more than two weeks prompted a “very concerned” US President Barack Obama to call for calm as the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting a day earlier. AFP PHOTO
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories: Four Palestinians were shot dead and a fifth wounded in attacks on Israelis in east Jerusalem and the West Bank Saturday, as violence that has fuelled concerns of an uprising showed no let-up.