In Cairo, meanwhile, the Abbas government resumed truce talks with Hamas, despite the prime minister's pledge after the Jerusalem bus bombing to cut off contacts with the militants.
Palestinian militants had declared a unilateral ceasefire June 29, but later changed the terms, saying they would retaliate for the killing of activists by Israeli troops.
In the West Bank, troops critically wounded a 15-year-old Palestinian in a clash with hundreds of stone-throwing youths in the city of Nablus, a hospital doctor said.
In the incident, a firebomb was thrown at a tank, and soldiers responded with shots from a machine gun, said a Palestinian medic, Ala Aratrut.
The Israeli military had no official comment.
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