Israeli soldiers on Saturday blew up a suspected bomb-making operation hidden in a metal workshop in the Old City of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, witnesses and Israeli military sources said.
Two Israeli soldiers were also hurt in local operations, including one slightly wounded in a blast in a nearby refugee camp.
In the city's historic centre, the troops rigged a strong explosion which collapsed the empty building, the witnesses said.
An Israeli military source said the soldiers blew up explosives they found inside, as well as chemicals used to make bombs.
Palestinian killed
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian as he approached a security fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Israeli military sources said on Saturday.
The sources said the Palestinian was shot on Friday night in an area off-limits to Palestinians and his body discovered on Saturday. They said an explosive device was found next to the body.
March for hunger-striking prisoners
Hundreds of people marched through the West Bank town of Hebron Saturday to show their support for a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel.
Waving Palestinian flags and photos of the prisoners, some 600 protestors marched from an Islamic college to the local offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross proclaiming their solidarity with the hunger strikers, an AFP correspondent said.
A similar demonstration by another 200 people took place at Damascus Gate in annexed east Jerusalem.
A spokesman for the Arab-Israeli communist party Hadash also said dozens of people answered their call Saturday morning to gather outside Israeli detention centres in Hasharon, Meggido and Shata, north of Tel Aviv.
They demanded the basic rights of prisoners be respected.
A significant proportion of the 8,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began an open-ended hunger strike for better conditions last Sunday which Israel has been determined to break.
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