RAMALLAH, WEST BANK, 12-OCT-2001: Palestinians run away from tear gas as they clash with Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance to Ramallah on the West Bank following the Muslim Friday prayers October 12, 2001. Thousands of anti-American demonstrators took to the streets in the West Bank in peaceful protest marches in Ramallah, Nablus and Tulkarem, many of them calling for the release of incarcerated Hamas activists who were arrested by Palestinian police in riots that broke out in Gaza after the first night of US-led strikes on Afghanistan October 7
