Israeli border police wound 6 barrier protesters
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli border police on Wednesday fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators protesting construction of a barrier between Israel and the Palestinian territories, Israeli military sources said.
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Six of the protesters were "lightly wounded," the sources said.
According to the sources, Israeli engineering personnel were preparing the construction site near the village of Budros, in the Ramallah area, when hundreds of protesters -- a mixture of Palestinians, Israelis and international visitors -- tried to obstruct the work by blocking bulldozers and roads.
After Israeli border police arrested seven of the protesters, the protesters started throwing stones at them, injuring one border policeman lightly, the sources said.
The police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
According to the accounts of Palestinian witnesses, Israeli bulldozers had been uprooting olive trees for the past two days to prepare the ground for the fence before the violence broke out.
