ALEXANDRIA, April 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Ever since the Israeli army occupied the West Bank city of Ramallah less than two weeks ago, Arab capitals have witnessed some of the most fervent demonstrations since the start of the Al Aqsa intifada in September 2000.

The response of some Arab governments has been to attempt to oppress these demonstrations, sometimes violently. As a result, two people have died.

On Tuesday, an Egyptian university student was killed when riot police opened fire at students protesting a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to Cairo.

The Egyptian interior ministry said the student at Alexandria University died of his injuries when police opened fire with shotguns after protestors pelted them with a hail of stones, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Police at first fired tear gas and water cannon at the protestors but failed to control the crowd surging onto the streets outside the university, according to a ministry statement read on state television.

Hospital and police officials earlier identified the victim as Mohammed Ali Al-Sayyed Al-Saqqa, a business student at the University of Alexandria, whom they said had been killed when a rubber-coated bullet hit him in the chest.

Cartridges obtained by AFP appeared to show those fired by shotguns, which the interior ministry said the police had used.

More than 200 people, mainly students but also around 40 policemen, were wounded and taken to three hospitals in Alexandria, hospital officials said.

The clashes started when most of the nearly 7,000 students taking part in the protest left the campus in the direction of a nearby U.S. cultural center, police and protestors said. It was not immediately clear if Saqqa fell inside or outside the campus, but police said the students ransacked stores and smashed nearly 100 cars as they headed toward the U.S. cultural center.

He was the first protestor to have been killed in a wave of angry protests by Egyptians in reaction to Israel's military action in the West Bank. The situation had calmed down by the evening, but students told AFP they were planning another protest on Wednesday.

On Sunday, 24-year-old Mohammad Jomaa, a Bahraini injured during a demonstration that turned violent outside the U.S. embassy in Manama here died of his wounds. He was the first person killed in the protests which have swept Arab countries against Israel's West Bank offensive.

Bahrain's Information Minister Nabil Al-Hamer confirmed Jomaa's "very sad" death, adding that one member of the security forces remained in critical condition after the violence. "Tear gas was used to disperse a number of infiltrators who attacked the US embassy which unfortunately injured one person taking part in the demonstration and a number of public security men," Hamer said.

Jomaa's father blamed his son's death on bullets fired by security personnel from the U.S. embassy, and said his family was awaiting the autopsy report. "Mohammad was hit in the head, the eye and thigh by rubber bullets fired from the US embassy," he told AFP.

The U.S. embassy admitted Saturday that its security personnel fired tear gas at the protesters, who hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at the mission.

On Wednesday, April 10, Bahraini anti-riot police fired tear gas to break up a pro-Palestinian protest by 2,000 schoolchildren that was heading for the U.S. embassy in Manama, witnesses said.

Several demonstrators were taken to hospital after inhaling tear gas, they said, without saying whether there were any arrests. The students were prevented from reaching the U.S. embassy, scene of a violent demonstration Friday when Bahrainis hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at the mission.

Bahrain's King Sheikh Hamad condemned Tuesday a petrol bomb attack on the U.S. embassy here by anti-Israeli protesters. "I will not tolerate ... actions and slogans that could threaten the democratic process" underway in the country, said the king, vowing to shield the reform drive.

In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, at least three people were injured on Tuesday when Yemeni police blocked demonstrators protesting at Israel's assault on West Bank towns from reaching the British consulate in the southern port city of Aden, witnesses said. "The police used tear gas and clubs to disperse the demonstrators, who were heading for the British consulate in Aden, and at least three protesters were wounded," one witness told AFP.

On Sunday a 10-year-old Palestinian boy died of injuries sustained in the Bakaa refugee camp in Jordan, where police were breaking up a demonstration. His parents said he was hit on the head with a tear gas canister but the coroner's report indicated a rock or a fall from high ground was to blame.

King Abdullah criticized the protesters who went on the rampage saying, "destruction and attacks on our streets do not serve our just cause in Palestine.

Hamza Shabbani, died Sunday two days after being injured while playing outside his house in the Bakaa camp, while riot police were breaking up a demonstration further in the compound.

His father Fuad told AFP the boy was hit on the head by a tear gas canister which caused his death but coroner Mo'men Hadidi said the autopsy blamed the death on a "blunt injury ... which could not be caused by a tear gas grenade".

In Mauritania, students at Nouakchott University started another form of protest and began an unlimited hunger strike Tuesday to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people, a student spokesman said.

While the spokesman did not say how many students were involved in the strike, he described it as "widely supported" adding that it would continue "until the end of the occupation by the Israeli army".