Last update - 00:00 09/11/2006
Police use stun grenades to disperse East Jerusalem protesters
By Jonathan Lis and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents
Eleven Palestinians were detained Thursday for disorderly conduct near Damascus Gate in the Old City, including a youth who tried to strike a Jewish passerby.
Police said they used stun grenades to disperse a procession of Palestinian students protesting a strike in Beit Hanun the previous day that killed 19 civilians.
Witnesses said police officers fired in the air, a charge police denied. The crowd promptly dispersed.
In a separate incident, two policemen were lightly wounded when Palestinians threw stones at them on Salah a-Din street in East Jerusalem.
Police also dispersed an earlier rally of some 100 Palestinians near Damascus Gate with stun grenades.
Security forces raised their level of preparedness in the West Bank and along the Green Line dividing it from Israel in light of a warning of a suicide bombing in retaliation for the Beit Hanun strike.
Police raised the level of alert across the country on Wednesday.
Commissioner Moshe Karadi ordered police and Border Police units intensify operations at the entrance to cities, locations with high concentrations of people, transportation stations and along the Green Line.