Suspected pipe bomb thrown at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethelehem

Police say there are no injuries after a suspected pipe bomb was thrown at the Bethlehem compound housing Rachel’s Tomb.

Police say sappers were called to deal with the device, which was thrown from the Palestinian side of a fence separating the heavily guarded Jewish shrine from the rest of the West Bank city.

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