Israeli soldiers injure three Palestinians on West Bank

Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets at rioting Palestinian youths in the West Bank town of Hebron on Saturday, injuring three of them, Israel radio reported.

It quoted an Israel Defence Force (IDF) spokesman as saying that the soldiers "were forced to fire rubber bullets and tear gas grenades after the youths hurled stones and firebombs at the soldiers' positions along the dividing line in Hebron" .

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