Thousands more are enduring long hours of delay in a huge traffic jam at the border.

They say 'adequate security' was in place.

Since the violence first erupted on May 3, more than 180 people have been killed and over 50,000 have fled their homes in Manipur.

Azerbaijan rejects Armenian accusations of ethnic cleansing, but images of tens of thousands of desperate people on the move have provoked widespread international alarm.

A police spokesman says the clashes drew attention to the houses, which he says authorities had found were constructed illegally on government land.

Nationwide, around 5,900 people took to the streets, according to the interior ministry.

The raid targeted the northern city of Jenin and was the biggest in the West Bank for years, featuring armoured vehicles, army bulldozers and drones.

The violence has plunged President Emmanuel Macron into the gravest crisis of his leadership since the Yellow Vest protests that started in 2018.

Some 421 people have been arrested throughout France.

The incident has fed longstanding complaints of police violence and systemic racism inside law enforcement agencies from rights groups and within the low-income, racially mixed suburbs around major cities in France.

The use of lethal force by officers against the teenager, who was of North African origin, has fed into a deep-rooted perception of police brutality in the ethnically diverse suburbs of France's biggest cities.

While some relief supplies have trickled in, aid agencies report almost insurmountable hurdles to their work.