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ETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Young Palestinian men closed down a main road in the village of Dar Salah east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday night, after Palestinian police detained a number of suspects from the village.

Palestinian police spokesman Luay Irzeiqat told Ma’an that police forces entered the village and arrested a number of people wanted for unspecified offenses.

In protest, Irzeiqat added, a group of young men closed the main road with rocks and tires and threw stones at police officers.

Backup security forces later arrived to the scene, dispersed the crowd and reopened the road, the police spokesman added.

The Palestinian Authority has been faced with growing discontent in the occupied Palestinian territory, with the Hamas movement in April accusing it of adopting a "revolving door policy" that funnels Palestinians from PA jails into Israeli prisons as part of “escalating security collaboration” with Israeli authorities.
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