Hundreds of demonstrators pelted police with stones near the West Bank village Bidu Wednesday afternoon and 12 were injured during protests against the security fence which is under construction in the area west of Jerusalem.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, while IDF soldiers responded with rubber-coated bullets.
Ten Palestinians were hurt in the early-afternoon demonstration, including a 12-year-old boy who is in serious condition after being shot in the head by a rubber- coated bullet.
Two Israeli activists were lightly hurt.
The area in question, which lies near the Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Zion, has been the scene of almost daily protests over the last few weeks.
On February 26, three Palestinians were killed and more than 50 protesters were injured during clashes with IDF troops, in the most lethal anti-fence protest to date.
The barrier, a network of electronic sensor fences, concrete walls, patrol roads, observation posts and other obstacles, is aimed at preventing Palestinian terrorists from entering Israel.
Palestinians say that the barrier, which zigzags in and around the West Bank to incorporate Jewish settlements near the Green Line, is creating a de facto border on land they want for a future state.
Israel has completed nearly one-third of the 700 km barrier since construction began two years ago.
Palestinians and much of the international community say the fence should be built along the Green Line, between Israel and the West Bank.
In response to international and local pressure, Israel has already shortened the original length of the barrier by some 70 km, with its final route still unconfirmed.
