SHAAR BINYAMIN (Palestinian Territories): Around 80 Palestinian and international activists on Wednesday staged an unexpected protest inside an Israeli supermarket in the West Bank, police and a correspondent said.

The protest was held at the Rami Levy supermarket located in the Shaar Binyamin commercial centre on a highway just north of Jerusalem.

The low-cost supermarket, which is very close to Geva Binyamin, is not technically located inside the fence of the settlement, and is therefore accessible by both settlers and Palestinians.

Waving dozens of Palestinian flags and banners reading “Boycott occupation and its products” they pushed their way into the shop where they shouted slogans, the correspondent said. Shortly afterwards, around 50 Israeli soldiers and police arrived at the scene and herded them out where they continued their protest, he said, indicating that troops used stun grenades to break up the crowd.—AFP