Several Palestinians on Friday sustained gunshot wounds when Zionist forces dispersed an anti-occupation protest in a West Bank town in which a senior Palestinian official died last week.

Several Palestinians on Friday sustained gunshot wounds when Zionist forces dispersed an anti-occupation protest in a West Bank town in which a senior Palestinian official died last week.

Three Palestinians were injured by live fire and four others with rubber bullets after Zionist forces forcibly dispersed the demonstration in the north-eastern Turmus Ayya town.

Zionist army forces also detained four anti-occupation protesters, including a female American national, during the melee.

Fistfights also broke out between protesters and occupation soldiers during the protest.

Palestinians had earlier gathered in Turmus Ayya town for weekly demonstrations against the Zionist occupation and the separation barrier in the West Bank.

Protesters had set up a symbolic memorial at the spot where Ziad Abu Ein, who had been in charge of the Zionist settlements file for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), died last week following a clash with Israeli soldiers.

Palestinians stage weekly protests on Friday against ongoing Zionist settlement building and the separation wall, which snakes across the occupied West Bank, isolating large swathes of Palestinian territory.