About 250 Jewish settlers demonstrated in Hebron on Wednesday against the planned reopening of the Arab market in the center of the town, near the town’s Jewish enclave. Meanwhile, Hebron Jewish leaders claim that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators had discussed the stationing of Palestinian police in the Muslim areas of the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Israeli officials denied the claim.
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