Israeli forces fired both live ammunition and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters who marched from Ramallah city to the Qalandiya military checkpoint in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners, according to Palestinian medical sources.
Among those injured was a young man who was hit with a live bullet in the abdomen and was evacuated to the Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah. Doctors there reported his condition as "moderate to serious."
Four others were shot in the legs with live fire, and six were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, medical sources said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent's ambulance service set up a field clinic near the Qalandiya checkpoint to treat protesters and bystanders, dozens of whom were suffocating as Israeli soldiers showered the area with tear gas.
Witnesses said Israeli soldiers fired at the demonstrators from rooftops overlooking the main street.
In the Ramallah-area village of Nabi Saleh, two Palestinian "youth" were injured with live ammunition during clashes that erupted with Israeli forces at the entrance of the village, after Israeli forces suppressed a solidarity march.
Meanwhile, clashes broke out in the Zif community between Yatta and Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank, after Israeli soldiers suppressed a peaceful march from a sit-in tent established in solidarity with the prison hunger strike.
Israeli forces shot live fire into the air and fired tear gas canisters at protesters, causing at least two Palestinians to suffer from tear gas inhalation, locals said.
The clashes came as Palestinians observed a general strike across the Palestinian territory in support of the mass hunger strike, and also to express opposition to US President Donald Trump who arrived in Israel on Monday for a two-day visit.
Separately a "vehicles march" also launched in Hebron city on Monday, where Palestinians drove thought the streets as an act of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike.
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