Shops remained closed in the Old City and on the main shopping street in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian area occupied and annexed by Israel.
The Israeli soldier was killed on Saturday night at Shuafat checkpoint, a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem.
Since then, the Israeli army and police have been conducting a manhunt to try to find the author of this attack, encircling the Chouafat camp in particular.
Clashes erupted between heavily armed Israeli forces and Palestinians who were throwing stones into the camp.
According to Kazem Abu Khalaf, a spokesman for the United Nations agency responsible for aid to Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the tightened entry control and the violence have led to the closure of schools and health centers in the country. agency in the camp.
“The situation there is really tense,” he told AFP, pointing to tons of uncollected waste piling up.
In the Old City of Jerusalem, Nawal Jodeh told AFP that her daughter lives in Shuafat camp with her family: “She says the situation is bad there”.
During a visit to the camp, Israeli Arab MP Ahmed Tibi spoke on Tuesday of “suffering in Shuafat”, referring to “sick or injured people struggling to get out of the camp for treatment, empty bakeries, doctors and nurses who cannot access it”.
“To get out of the camp, you have to queue in your car for three or four hours. It’s collective punishment,” he said.
Residents of Shuafat called on Tuesday evening for “civil disobedience” against the Israeli measures.
On Tuesday, a second Israeli soldier was killed in a new attack, near Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank and scene of clashes and Israeli operations in recent months.
And on Wednesday the Israeli army said it had blocked roads leading to this city, also on strike.
In the wake of deadly anti-Israeli attacks in March and April, the Israeli army increased operations and arrests in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by the Jewish state since 1967, especially in the areas of Jenin and Nablus .
These Israeli raids, often interspersed with clashes with the Palestinian population, left more than a hundred dead on the Palestinian side, the heaviest toll in the West Bank for nearly seven years, according to the UN.
