Militants opened fire on Wednesday in front of a building in the Balata refugee camp in West Bank, while Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei made a speach there.

The incident began as Qurei spoke to militants inside a sports club near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses said, adding the militants inside the building fired in the air while some others from outside also fired shots at the building, which didn't penetrate the wall.

Later when Qurei was leaving with his entourage the refugee camp, an explosive device was detonated but he was not injured, said the witnesses.

Qurei, who was later host a weekly cabinet meeting in Nablus, denounced the shooting incident. "This is the kind of chaos we do not want. They (militants) want to impose their will but we will not bend to them."

Source: Xinhua