RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest at Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank.

A number of foreign activists and Palestinians were injured when attacked with tear gas grenades and rubber bullets in different West Bank villages.

In Masarah village near Bethlehem, the IOF physically attacked the protestors and one of them was severely injured and sustained bruises all over his body.

The IOF also used wastewater against some marches as happened in Kafr Kaddum village east of Qalqiliya city.

Kafr Kaddum villagers said their weekly march, which started a few months ago, would continue until the Israeli occupation authority opens the closed road in their village and removes the settlements built on their lands.

Near Ramallah city in Nabi Saleh village, dozens of foreign activists and Palestinians organized their weekly march chanting slogans against the occupation, settlement activities and the international silence.

The IOF savagely attacked and quelled their march using tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and wastewater.

In the nearby Bil'in village, five protestors were reportedly injured and dozens suffered tear gas suffocation when they were attacked near the new part of the segregation wall in Abu Leimun area.