The army said it also imposed a curfew on the nearby refugee district of Balata.

A8 Israel is sealing off refugee districts and ordering Palestinians to stay in their houses, sometimes for days.

Thirteen Palestinian refugee districts with 250,000 people were under round-the-clock curfews.

The army has previously prevented journalists from entering smaller areas of unrest like individual towns and refugee districts.

They agreed to end violence around the refugee districts and rush food supplies and building materials to them.

Roughly a dozen refugee districts were under curfew today, with no one allowed outside his house.

About half the Palestinians live in 12 refugee districts in the south, north and east of the country.

In several refugee districts, Palestinians burned tires and blocked roads with rocks.

There were emotional scenes when the combatants emerged at dawn from their shelters in the now-demolished refugee district.

By nightfall, the army had 12 towns and refugee districts under curfew, confining some 200,000 people to their homes.