Bilin, West Bank - Fourteen protestors were hurt when Israeli forces quashed a protest against the Jewish state's controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medics said.
Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the peace activists. Four people were taken to hospital with injuries and another 10 protestors were treated by paramedics on the site, witnesses and medics said.
Hundreds of peace activists, Israelis, foreigners and Palestinians, have been protesting for about two years at least once a week in Bilin, near Ramallah, against the barrier.
Israel maintains the barrier is needed to prevent infiltration by West Bank militants.
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The Palestinians say the project is to grab their land and undermine the viability of their promised state.
In 2004 the International Court of Justice issued a non-binding ruling that parts of the 650-kilometre barrier criss-crossing the West Bank are illegal and should be torn down.
Israel has vowed to complete the project.
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