Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian demonstrator in clashes in the West Bank on Tuesday as the regime tightened security following a pair of Palestinian attacks that took two Israeli lives the day before.

Tuesday’s clashes erupted near Hebron where about 150 Palestinian demonstrators were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers, the army said.

Palestinian hospital officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to media, said the man died of gunshot wounds. They had no information on his identity.

The regime military, however, claimed that the soldiers’ attempts to disperse the crowd using tear gas and rubber bullets failed, prompting the troops to open fire.

The Palestinian man was seriously wounded and died of gunshots, said hospital officials in the West Bank,

The shooting happened a day after a Palestinian from the West Bank city of Nablus stabbed and killed a 20-year-old Israeli soldier at a crowded Tel Aviv train station and another Palestinian assailant stabbed three people at a bus stop next to a West Bank colony, killing a 25-year-old Israeli woman and wounding two others.

The new spate of violence comes amid rising tensions spawned by continuous Israeli raids into Al Haram Al Sharif in occupied Jerusalem.

Palestinians in east Jerusalem have been staging violent protests, alleging that Jewish zealots are secretly trying to gain control of the site.

Complicating the situation, tensions also spiked following the killing of a Palestinian citizen of Israel in the northern town of Kfar Kana on Saturday.

Regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the protests by Palestinian citizens on Monday by calling on them to leave.

News site Al Arabiya reported that the Israeli Prime Minister commented on Monday, “To all those who are demonstrating and shouting their denunciation of Israel and support of a Palestinian state, I can say one simple thing: you are invited to move there — to the Palestinian [National] Authority or to Gaza.”

Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian Member of the Knesset and leader of the Ta’al, an Arab party in the Israeli parliament responded that Netanyahu had “gone off the rails”, as demonstrations and protests continued in Kfar Kana and several other towns and villages of the 1948 areas in protest against the murder of Khair Al Deen Hamdan.

The regime military said it sent reinforcements to the West Bank, following what it called “new security assessments.”

Israeli media debated whether the country was on the verge of a new Palestinian uprising or intifada, similar to those from the late 1980s and the first decade of the 2000s that took hundreds of lives.

“This is the same soundtrack that we all remember from the days of the intifadas,” wrote Alex Fishman in Tuesday’s edition of Yediot Ahronot newspaper. “You haven’t yet had time to come to terms with the morning’s terror attack and you’re already ... in the next one.”

Earlier on Tuesday, an explosion at the Keren Shalom border post on the Israel-Gaza border killed one person, health authorities in Gaza said.

Munir Galban, head of the Palestinian side of the border, described it as an accident. The Israeli military said it was unaware of any “security incident” in the area.

— with inputs from Nasouh Nazzal, Correspondent