KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Blood is spilling again today in the Middle East as Palestinians and Israelis blame each other for the escalating death toll. Since last Thursday, spasms of violence have claimed nearly two dozen lives in clashes in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. CNN's Jerrold Kessel joins us from Jerusalem with the latest -- Jerrold.</s>JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, escalating tensions, escalating exchanges and of gunfire too on this the fourth straight day of Palestinian-Israeli clashes, the worst such confrontations in four years between the two sides. And the death toll now is more than 20 Palestinians confirmed killed in the last three days of this violence, which started in Jerusalem, but has spread to the whole of the Gaza -- parts of the Gaza Strip and many parts of the West Bank, friction points between them. Also, ominously for Israel, there've been demonstrations that have erupted in northern Israel, Israel's Arab citizens also taking to the streets and engaging in rock throwing against police, who have fired back with tear gas and also rubber-coated steel bullets. And more than 20 Israeli Arab citizens injured in those clashes. But the worst clashes have been in the Gaza Strip and in parts of the West Bank. It seemed as if perhaps the violence would taper off, but it's gathered momentum in the last couple of hours, and at an important crossroads in the Gaza Strip, this was the scene earlier, just in the last hour or so. And this junction is normally patrolled both by Israeli and Palestinian police together, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police,
Violence Between Palestinians and Israelis Continues to Spread in Holy Land