Israelis, Palestinians to bury dead after day of violence
Israelis and Palestinians are mourning their dead after violence erupted all over the West Bank and Gaza on the day Palestinians marked the creation of Israel.
Four Palestinians were killed and more than 200 wounded on Tuesday when protest marches turned into clashes with Israeli forces.
Later, an Israeli woman was killed and her father was injured when Palestinians opened fire on their car in the West Bank.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians marched in processions to mark Al Naqba, or "the catastrophe", the Arabic term for creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
During more than a year of fighting that followed an invasion of the newborn Jewish state by five Arab armies, about 750,000 Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes.
All over the Palestinian territories, the marches turned into confrontations with Israeli soldiers at roadblocks and outposts.
The Israelis fired tear gas, rubber-coated spheres and live ammunition at Palestinians, who were throwing rocks and firebombs, as Palestinian gunmen fired from buildings.
The Israeli woman killed in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank lived in the settlement of Rimonim.
The military said Palestinians opened fire on her car along a road through the Judean desert used mostly by settlers.
After nightfall, there were heavy exchanges of fire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces near the Palestinian town of Bethlehem and the Jewish settlement of Psagot in the West Bank.
