Dozens of Palestinians were injured by Israeli troops Friday while staging a protest near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC).
In a statement, the PRC said that 15 Palestinians had been wounded by Israeli army gunfire after clashes between demonstrators and soldiers erupted in the town of Al-Mughayyir east of Ramallah.
"About 25 others suffered the effects of excessive teargas and were treated at the scene," the PRC added.
According to witnesses, at least two other Palestinians were hurt by rubber bullets fired by Israeli troops.
Every Friday, Palestinians stage demonstrations across the West Bank to protest Israel's ongoing policy of building Jewish-only settlements on stolen Palestinian land.
According to estimates, some 640,000 Jewish settlers currently live on 196 settlements (built with the Israeli government's approval) and more than 200 settler outposts (built without its approval) throughout the occupied West Bank.
International law regards the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as "occupied territory" and considers all Jewish settlement-building there to be illegal.
Israel-Palestine peace talks collapsed in 2014 due to Tel Aviv's steadfast refusal to halt its settlement-building activities and accept pre-1967 borders as a basis for a two-state solution to the conflict.
