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Palestinian youngsters from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat scuffled with Israeli police on Wednesday (January 19), in what has lately become a daily routine in the city.A Reuters video showed youths hurling rocks towards Israeli border policemen in riot gear, who responded with tear gas canisters. An Israeli police spokesperson was checking the report.In recent months, clashes of this kind have erupted in East Jerusalem's Palestinian neighbourhoods almost every week. On Friday (January 14), Palestinian youths attacked with rocks an Israeli car driving through the Silwan neighbourhood, burned tyres and scuffled with police who shot tear gas canisters towards them.Israel considers all of Jerusalem its eternal and united capital but has not won international recognition of its claim.The Palestinian Authority says it wants East Jerusalem as the capital of the state it hopes to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The future of Jerusalem is a major bone of contention in peace talks re-started by the Bush administration in late 2007. Some 500,000 Jews and 260,000 Palestinians live in the city.
