A Palestinian man was killed and 10 others wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers and police at the Qalandiya refugee camp near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said Tuesday. Violent clashes broke out after a jeep carrying two border guards entered the camp by mistake overnight, a police spokesman said, adding that five policemen were injured, one seriously. The Palestinian Red Crescent said a 22-year-old man died of gunshot wounds and six were wounded in the violence that began late on Monday at Qalandia refugee camp. The Israeli military and police said five soldiers and five paramilitary border policemen were hurt. Israeli security forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians. A military spokeswoman said the soldiers' vehicle inadvertently entered Qalandia where they and later their rescuers came under a hail of rocks and petrol bombs. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said the two soldiers got into trouble because they had relied on satellite navigation on their mobile phone. "I have always said that if even if you use a navigation program, you still need to know how to navigate with a map," Yaalon said in a speech near Tel Aviv. The Qalandia camp lies north of Jerusalem and on the outskirts of Ramallah, the Palestinian seat of government. It is a point of frequent violence between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops. The past five months of bloodshed have been fueled by various factors, including a dispute over Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the failure of several rounds of peace talks to secure the Palestinians an independent state in Israeli-occupied territory. Palestinian leaders have said that with no breakthrough on the horizon, desperate youngsters see no future ahead. — Agencies
