Israeli forces fire teargas pro-Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem & the West Bank

Clashes broke out between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem during a general strike on Tuesday.

General strikes were also held in East Jerusalem, Arab towns within Israel and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with posts on social media bearing a Palestinian flag and urging solidarity "from the sea to the river."

Palestinian businesses across East Jerusalem were shuttered, including in the walled Old City, and in the mixed Jewish-Arab port city of Haifa in northern Israel, protest organizer Raja Zaatar told Reuters the strike had closed 90% of businesses in Arab neighbourhoods.

Cross-border fighting between Israel and Hamas appeared to abate slightly early on Tuesday, with no fatalities logged in Gaza for the first time since hostilities erupted on May 10, and fewer long-range Palestinian rocket attacks.

Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem on Tuesday as Israel and Hamas cross-border fire entered its ninth day and general strikes were announced across the Palestinians Territories and parts of Israel and Jerusalem.

The clashes broke in the old city's Damascus Gate as general strikes were held in East Jerusalem, Arab towns within Israel and in the West Bank cities.

Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants resumed cross-border rocket fire on Tuesday after a brief overnight lull during which the U.N. sent a small fuel convoy into the enclave, where it says 52,000 people are now displaced.

Israeli leaders said they would press on, for now, with an offensive to destroy the capabilities of the armed factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad, amid calls by the United States and other world powers for an end to the conflict.

Two Thai workers were killed and seven people were wounded in a rocket strike on an Israeli farm just over the Gaza border, police said. Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

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