Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli forces during clashes at Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday. The death of a Palestinian prisoner in disputed circumstances in an Israeli jail last week, together with a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates, two of whom ended their protest last Wednesday after an agreement on their release was reached with Israel, have touched off violent protests over the past several weeks in the West Bank.

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