(ANSA) - TEL AVIV, January 5 - Two weeks ago, Gil Naamati, 21, a member of a fringe Israeli group called "Anarchists Against the Fence" got seriously wounded by soldiers as he tried to cut through the razor-wire-tipped fence, throwing the local media in stupor.

He was taking part in a protest against the building of the West Bank barrier.

On Saturday, Israeli anarchists again protested against what Palestinians called "The Wall of Apartheid." Clashes occurred, water guns were used, but no one was injured.

The anarchists in Israel are also very critical to Zionism. The occupation of the Territories in 1967 was not a ''historical accident'' as Zionist parties say, but an inescapable development for the Jewish state.

However, when the anarchists, along with Palestinians and foreign activists, faced the guns of the military during a protest in the West Bank two weeks ago, they started to shout: "Do not fire, we are Israelis!" A strange exclamation, when it comes from radical anti-Zionists, the Israeli daily Haaretz said.

"Rather than an ideological group, we are an action group," Liad Kantorowicz, 26, student at Tel Aviv University, told the military radio. "Not all of us have the same ideology, but we are all convinced that this wall sentences thousands of Palestinian families to hunger and forces them to go to other places. All in all, it is a racist barrier," Kantorowicz added.

According to the Haaretz Daily, the anarchists in Israel are about 200. Isolated cases of anarchism have been spotted also in Palestinian refugee camps. However, such cases are very rare.

Israeli anarchists are an absolute novelty in the local political life. Their Web sites, among them www.squat.net, do not show quotations by either Mikhail Bakunin, who was also an anti-Semite, or by Max Stirner, they feature instead funny images of famous rebels from comics such as Argentinean graphic novelist Quino's Mafalda and Matt Groening's Bart Simpson.

Kantorowicz and her compagnions (Yonatan Pollack, Santiago Gomez) said in their interviews to local media they also
decisively opposed consumerism. Some of them do not eat meat or drink coffee (a sign of solidarity with those who struggle on plantations in the Third World), abhor credit cards and other weird inventions of capitalism. In order to limit expenses and contacts with society, they live in a modest Tel Aviv's suburb.

No anarchists have been seen in Israel until recently. In their theoretical texts they accused Israel's Left in all its forms of being only "a cosmetic opposition" to the government. According to them, those reservists who refuse to do military service in the Territories in order not to act as oppressors of Palestinians, are also poisoned by "the disease of militarism." The anarchists' only acceptable moral position is anti-militarism. Their Manual for Conscientious Objectors, an 80-page "Bible" full of practical advice, is published on the Internet.

On Sunday, a Jaffa military tribunal sentenced five conscientious objectors to one year imprisonment each.