AFP
Bilin

Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists faced off against Israeli forces yesterdayFriday in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin where they marked 10 years of protest against Israel’s separation barrier.
In what has become a weekly ritual, the activists marched towards the barrier which cuts villagers off from their fields.
Palestinian youths with slingshots aimed stones at border police posted along the wire-topped concrete wall and the police fired tear gas to disperse them, AFP journalists at the scene said.
One protester wearing a gas mask was seen hurling a smoking gas canister back at the Israelis.
At least one demonstrator was arrested, another was seen being taken away by ambulance after a blow to the head and several suffered tear gas inhalation.
The extent of their injuries was not known.
Israel says the barrier is designed to prevent militant attacks, but the Palestinians say it is an “apartheid wall” that carves off key parts of their promised state.
When the 709-km barrier is complete, 85% of it will have been built inside the West Bank.
The weekly Bilin demonstrations, which began in February 2005, are billed as non-violent but frequently turn into clashes between rock-throwing youths and Israeli forces firing tear gas, rubber bullets or live rounds.
There have been fatalities.
In January 2011, a woman protester, Jawaher Abu Rahmah, died after inhaling tear gas. Her brother Bassem Abu Rahmah died in April 2009 after being hit on the head by a tear gas canister.
Meanwhile, an Israeli official has said the government will stop cutting power to Palestinian cities over unpaid bills and will deduct funds from tax money to prevent the debt increasing, .
The official also said Israel would connect water to a Palestinian city so that it can be inhabited, after a minister’s objection had been overruled.  
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said on Thursday that Israel would be taking approximately 60mn shekels ($15mn) “out every month now from what we’re holding up, so the debt doesn’t get larger.”
Israel has been withholding hundreds of millions of shekels in taxes it collects and transfers monthly to the Palestinian Authority since early January, following the Palestinian move to join the International Criminal Court.