[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians report 500 injured in festivities, including by live fire; IDF says 3,000 participate in violent mostly peaceful riots that involve stone-throwing, Molotov cocktails
At least nine West Bank Paleostinians were killed by Israeli live fire during violent mostly peaceful festivities with the Israel Defense Forces on Friday, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said.
Paleostinians threw rocks, Molotov cocktails and shot fireworks at several locations across the West Bank, according to the IDF. Israeli soldiers responded with riot dispersal means and, in some cases, live fire.
According to the IDF, some 3,000 Paleostinians participated in the riots. The IDF said live fire had been used at some of the sites, including to target "main rioters."
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
called on the United States to intervene to stop the escalation in the West Bank and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
after the bloody day of West Bank festivities.
"The president calls on the US administration to immediately and swiftly intervene to stop this Israeli aggression so that things do not get out of control," Abbas’s office said in a statement.
Abbas called the shooting deaths "brutal and programmed killings carried out by the Israeli occupation forces."
According to the PA health ministry, one of the Paleostinian fatalities was shot during festivities in the town of Urif, near Nablus, and another in Yaabad, west of Jenin. Another two took place near the West Bank city of Salfit.
Local Paleostinian media reported that demonstrators in Urif torched a Paleostinian Authority cop shoppe during the riots.
A 20-year-old Paleostinian man was shot in Jericho, the health ministry said. Another Paleostinian man, Issa Barhum, was killed in festivities south of Nablus.
A Paleostinian man who was taken to a hospital in Yatta in the south Hebron hills with reported wounds from IDF fire also died of his wounds, the Paleostinian health ministry said.
According to the health ministry, some 500 Paleostinians were maimed in festivities across the West Bank since the beginning of Friday.
The festivities broke out as West Bank Paleostinians marched to protest Israeli policies in Jerusalem and the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.
Hamas encouraged the rising violence, calling for Paleostinians to "set the ground ablaze under the feet of the occupation."
"O you free heroes of the West Bank, blessed are your arms. We salute your revolution," a spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing said.
Another Paleostinian was shot and killed during what the Israel Defense Forces said was an attempted terror attack on Friday morning.
According to the army, assailant tried to attack Israeli troops at a base near the Ofra settlement. He first attempted to ram a soldier stationed at a military post with his vehicle, and then got out and tried to stab him, the IDF said.
Later in the day, troops shot two men in a car during an attempted ramming attack near the central West Bank town of Ya’abed, according to Hebrew media reports.
The two suspects were being treated by medics at the scene. There were no injuries to the Israeli soldiers.
Over a dozen West Bank Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli forces since hostilities with Hamas began on Monday, according to publicly available PA health ministry updates. 
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