A Palestinian man was mortally wounded on Wednesday during a violent protest of about 350 people by a checkpoint near Ramallah.<br />The IDF has opened an investigation into whether the wounds the man suffered were caused by gunfire or a stone thrown by protestors.<br />The man, identified as Ahmad Ahmad, a student at Birzeit University, was evacuated to the Hadasa Hospital at Ein Kerem and is being treated there.<br />The protesters threw Molotov cocktails and lit tire fires.<br />In response, IDF soldiers fired live ammunition and rubber bullets towards the main inciters, and used riot dispersal means.<br />One of the protestors was arrested.<br />Also Wednesday, Israel, for the first time during this period of tension, issued a message to the Palestinian population in the West Bank, in an attempt to calm the atmosphere.<br />The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Major-General Yoav Mordechai, gave an interview to the Palestinian media, saying Israel does not want the situation in the West Bank to escalate.
