Israeli troops have killed two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus during stone-throwing clashes which erupted in the heart of the historic city, witnesses and hospital officials say.
A total of 33 Palestinians were killed in violence this week, most of them during an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that Israel said targeted the Islamic militant group Hamas.
In Nablus, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a group of Palestinians who threw stones at them in the city's Casbah, killing two men, at least one of them a bystander, witnesses and hospital officials said.
The army did not immediately comment on the killings, but said soldiers had returned fire after a Palestinian youth threw a petrol bomb at troops in the same area.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians vowed revenge on Friday in a funeral procession of a leading Hamas military commander who was killed by Israeli forces during recent raids in Gaza which have overshadowed international peace efforts.
At least 1,862 Palestinians and 705 Israelis have been killed in the revolt which flared after US-brokered peace talks on a Palestinian state failed.