Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank clashes

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian during clashes in the occupied West Bank, hours after police fanned out in a tense east Jerusalem neighborhood trying to contain violence between ultranationalist Jewish activists and Palestinian residents. The clashes erupted after Israeli forces rolled into a village to destroy homes of two Palestinian detainees accused of killing a settler in December. Jerusalem’s unrest took place in Sheikh Jarrah, a flashpoint neighborhood where clashes last year helped spark an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. The violence erupted after a Jewish settler’s home was torched. An ultranationalist Israeli lawmaker responded by opening a makeshift office, enraging residents.