A Palestinian protester uses a makeshift launcher to shoot fire crackers as another protester takes cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers and border policemen in the West Bank city of Hebron, Feb. 24. Israel on Sunday demanded the Palestinian Authority stem a surge of anti-Israeli protests ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the region next month. The death in an Israeli jail of a Palestinian detainee on Saturday and an on-going hunger strike by four inmates have fueled tensions in the West Bank.

Israeli police arrest Palestinian reporter working for Al-Jazeera satellite channel Mahmud al-Jabari, during clashes between police and protestors in the West Bank city of Hebron following a demonstration calling for the reopening of one of the city's main streets on February 25, 2011 on the anniversary of the 1994 massacre of 29 Palestinians in Hebron by a Jewish extremist. At least nine people were wounded.

Palestinian men carry the body of Amr Qawasme during his funeral after he was killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron January 7, 2011. The Israeli troops killed the 65-year-old Palestinian in his bedroom on Friday during a pre-dawn raid to seize a Hamas suspect who lived in the same building in what the army admitted was a mistake.

Sunset in the West Bank city of Hebron, Nov. 25.