The largest protest in years erupted in the occupied West Bank

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The largest protest in years erupted in the occupied West Bank over Israel?s offensive in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military continued to batter the besieged enclave with air strikes and the death toll topped 800.
Two protesters were killed and scores of others injured on Thursday in clashes with Israeli police just north of Jerusalem, according to medics. More protests were reported in Nablus, Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Doctors at Ramallah Hospital said they had received dozens of live-fire victims and appealed for blood donors.
The Israeli military confirmed troops had used “riot dispersal means” against protesters who threw rocks and firebombs at them and blocked a road with burning tyres.
By overnight Friday, parts of the main road between the West Bank?s Ramallah city and Jerusalem was ?carpeted with rocks that mostly young Palestinians threw at Israeli forces,? Al Jazeera?s Dalia Hatuqa, reporting from Ramallah, said.
Both Palestinian activists and Israel Radio said the protest appeared to be the largest since the end of a 2000-2005 Palestinian uprising.
The rallies came as Palestinian anger at Israel mounted amid the growing number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip.
“In the West Bank, we need to take our resistance efforts to a higher level,” Na’el Halabi, a student at Birzeit University, told Al Jazeera in Ramallah. “Gaza is not alone: we are part of the same struggle.”

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