RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- At least 14 Palestinian citizens were wounded when the IOF troops forcibly dispersed the protest rally they held against the apartheid-separation wall in the West Bank town of Bilin, west of Ramallah city Friday.

According to local Palestinian sources, the IOF troops used rubber-coated bullets, teargas canisters, and sonic bombs to quell the protest rally that caused suffocation to tens of Palestinians and foreign participants.

Three foreign sympathizers were also arrested by the IOF troops in the rally that the town's inhabitants organize every Friday. Four other Palestinian citizens and a number of foreign activists were wounded after they attempted to harvest their olive trees.

Hundreds of Palestinian and foreign sympathizers extended a helping hand and support for the Palestinian farmers to cultivate their olive groves, which is the main source of income to thousands of Palestinian families in the West Bank.

Another confrontation occurred in the Muassara village, south of Bethlehem city, between the fully-geared IOF troops, and unarmed Palestinians and international sympathizers as they protested the construction of the separation wall in the town.

According to local Palestinian sources, six more Palestinian activists in addition to a foreign lady activist were wounded when Israeli occupation soldiers attacked and beat them with batons and riffle butts after they protested the IOF confiscation of two Palestinian homes in Beit Emmar town, north of Al-Khalil city, and turning them into military posts. Five other activists were seized in the protest rally, the sources added.