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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police officers detained a 17-year-old Palestinian boy from al-Issawiya neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday evening, locals told Ma'an.

Police officers accused the unnamed teenager of throwing stones at the gate of an Israeli military base in the nearby French Hill settlement, according to locals.

Israeli police press spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said he had no information on the incident.

Earlier, Israeli police said unidentified attackers hurled Molotov cocktails at an illegal Israeli settlement outpost in Ras al-Amoud in the Old City of Jerusalem.

No casualties were reported.

The village of Issawiya has experienced nearly nightly clashes since May, when the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee confiscated 700 dunams (I73 acres) of land from the village for the building of an Israeli national park.