GAZA STRIP, Palestine: Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians and wounded at least 160 others with live fire Friday, medical officials said, as protests over U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital entered a second week. Most of the casualties were on the Gaza Strip border, where thousands of Palestinians gathered to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers beyond the fortified fence. Medics said two protesters, one of them wheelchair-bound, were killed from gunshots to the head and 150 wounded.

In the occupied West Bank, another area where Palestinians are seeking statehood along with adjacent occupied East Jerusalem, medics said two protesters were killed and 10 wounded by Israeli gunfire.

One of the dead was a man who Israeli police troopers said was shot after he stabbed a member of their unit. Reuters witnesses said the Palestinian held a knife and wore what looked like a bomb belt. A Palestinian medic who helped evacuate the man for treatment said the belt was fake.

Palestinians – and the wider Arab and Muslim world – were incensed at Trump’s Dec. 6 announcement, which reversed decades of U.S. policy reticence on Jerusalem, a city where both Israel and the Palestinians want sovereignty.

Washington’s European allies and Russia have also voiced worries about Trump’s decision.

Gaza’s dominant Hamas movement called last week for a new Palestinian uprising, but any such mass-mobilization has yet to be seen in the West Bank or East Jerusalem.

There have been almost nightly Gazan rocket launches into Israel, so far without casualties. Israel has responded with airstrikes on Hamas facilities, one of which killed two gunmen. The Israeli military said that, Friday, about 3,500 Palestinians demonstrated near the Gaza border fence. “During the violent riots [Israeli] soldiers fired selectively toward main instigators,” the military said in a statement.

One of the victims was a wheelchair-bound protester, Ibrahim Abu Thuraya. Abu Thuraya, 29, was a regular at such demonstrations. In media interviews, he said he had lost both his legs in a 2008 Israeli missile strike in Gaza.

In the West Bank, the Israeli military said that about 2,500 Palestinians took part in riots, rolling flaming tires and throwing fire bombs and rocks at soldiers and border police.

Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the Mideast 1967 war and later annexed it in a move not recognized internationally.

Palestinians hope that part of the city will be the capital of a future independent state and Palestinian leaders say Trump’s move is a serious blow to a moribund peace process.

Trump said his decision merely recognizes the reality that Jerusalem already serves as Israel’s capital and is not meant to prejudge the final borders of the city.

But Vice President Mike Pence was forced to delay a trip to the Middle East amid the outcry over Trump’s decision. Aides to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would not meet with Pence, who is now scheduled to arrive in Israel from Egypt Wednesday. Abbas had originally planned to host Pence in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem. Also Friday, in another declaration likely to enflame passions among Palestinians and others across the Middle East, senior Trump administration officials outlined their view that the Western Wall in East Jerusalem, considered Judaism’s holiest site, will ultimately be declared a part of Israel.

Although they said the ultimate borders of the holy city must be resolved through Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the officials essentially ruled out any scenario that didn’t maintain Israeli control over the area. The issue is sensitive because the wall is beyond Israel’s pre-1967 borders and abuts some of the Islamic world’s most revered sites.

“We cannot envision any situation under which the Western Wall would not be part of Israel. But as the president said, the specific boundaries of sovereignty of Israel are going to be part of the final status agreement,” a senior administration official said. Another official later added by email, “We note that we cannot imagine Israel would sign a peace agreement that didn’t include the Western Wall.” The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the vice president’s upcoming trip.

A third senior administration official noted the reaction to the Jerusalem decision and “a lot of the emotions that have been displayed on that.” The official said Pence’s trip is viewed as part of “the ending of that chapter and the beginning of what I would say the next chapter.”

Trump officials said Pence would reinforce Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem, but the administration also understands the Palestinians may need a cooling-off period.

Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a senior adviser to Abbas, told the Associated Press that such a policy that “decides unilaterally” on issues of final status negotiations is “unacceptable.”

Meanwhile, the Holy See said Friday that Pope Francis would meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II, the custodian of the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, at the Vatican next week.