A lone Israeli woman stood in the middle of the 30- meter stretch between the IDF soldiers blocking the road and the march of hundreds of Palestinian protesters in the village of Bidu outside Jerusalem on Thursday.

"Disperse, or we will use tear gas," yelled one soldier at her and the protesters behind her, using a loudspeaker.

She walked forward a few meters and begged them not to use violence.

On the side of the road, black smoke billowed from a number of burning tires.

"We came here for one reason," she yelled in Hebrew. "We came here for a protest against violence. It won't end until you understand something. This is the only option we have to show the Israelis and the Palestinians that there doesn't have to be violence, that there can be joint activity. There are many people here who really believe that."

Hundreds of demonstrators pelted police with stones near the West Bank village Bidu Wednesday afternoon and 12 were injured during protests against the security fence which is under construction in the area west of Jerusalem.

Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, while IDF soldiers responded with rubber-coated bullets.

Ten Palestinians were hurt in the early-afternoon demonstration, including a 12-year-old boy who is in serious condition after being shot in the head by a rubber- coated bullet.

Two Israeli activists were lightly hurt.

The area in question, which lies near the Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Zion, has been the scene of almost daily protests over the last few weeks.

It's called 'the separation fence intifada' - an unarmed civil protest - but hundreds of Palestinians are getting hurt, and so are their Israeli supporters.

It's become an almost daily routine. Every morning the residents of villages located on the planned route of the separation fence - from Elkana in Samaria to the outskirts of Jerusalem - wake up to the harsh metallic noise of the bulldozers. In the early morning hours the heavy machinery rumbles into the area, surrounded by security guards and army and Border Police troops. The villagers go out to their land in full force: men and women, young and old alike. They position themselves opposite the soldiers, wave flags, sing and try to get to the giant machines or sit down on the ground in an attempt to block them. And then what? Only God knows.

Twelve people reportedly were wounded Wednesday during clashes near the West Bank village of Bidu where Israel is building a security barrier.

Army and police spokesmen said hundreds of protestors were demonstrating against the fence and hurling stones. Soldiers in Bidu, which is northwest of Jerusalem, fired rubber bullets. One of the bullets reportedly cracked the skull of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy.

Border policemen at the fence fired tear gas to disperse crowds.

Hundreds of Bidu residents, members of the Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall, and foreign left-wing protesters have been participating in a series of demonstrations against the use of Palestinian lands to build the barrier.

In a symbolic gesture, residents of Bidu spent the afternoon replanting olive trees cut down by IDF bulldozers Tuesday morning as soldiers helped clear a path for the security fence that cuts into their agricultural lands.

Twenty-one Palestinians were wounded and 150 olive trees cut down in clashes between protesters, soldiers, and police as construction on the security fence continued near the village of Bidu Tuesday, according to activists and residents of the village.