- Some 12 people were wounded Wednesday during clashes
between Border Police officers and protesters demonstrating against the
West Bank separation fence under construction between the villages of Biddu
and Beit Ajaza, west of Jerusalem.
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- Security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse
the protesters.
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- Ten Palestinians were hurt, including a 12-year-old Palestinian
boy who was seriously injured after being hit in the head by a rubber-coated
bullet.
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- Two Israeli protesters were also lightly hurt in their
legs.
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- There are almost daily protests near this section of
the fence, which is close to the Israeli town of Mevasseret Zion. Hundreds
of Biddu residents, as well as five to ten members of the Anarchists Against
the Wall groups and foreign left-wing protesters participate in the demonstrations.
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- On February 26, three Palestinians were killed and more
than 50 injured during clashes with IDF troops near Biddu.
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- Also Wednesday, some 3,000 Palestinians, including 400
gunmen, attended a rally in Gaza City calling for the release of jailed
Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti and the other Palestinian prisoners.
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- One Palestinian, identified as Ali Amar, 22, was killed
when he was shot in the head by gunmen firing in the air, hospital officials
said.
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- Barghouti, the highest ranking Palestinian captured by
Israel, has been charged with being involved in attacks that killed 26
Israelis. The rally came in the run-up to the day Palestinians mark in
solidarity with their prisoners in Israeli jails.
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- Earlier in the day, about 3,000 Palestinian laborers
refused to cross into the Erez industrial zone along the boundary between
Gaza and Israel for the second day.
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- Workers say they were protesting what they called humiliating
security checks, especially body searches.
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- IDF troops also blew up a house in the West Bank city
of Nablus on Wednesday that belonged to the family of Sabih Abu Saud, a
suicide bomber who blew himself up in a West Bank village last November
as the army hunted him down.
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