The massive Hamas attack on Israel cannot justify the limitless destruction of the Gaza Strip, the Red Cross said Friday, as Israel pounded the enclave.
"Nothing can justify the horrific attacks Israel suffered last weekend... but those attacks cannot in turn justify the limitless destruction of Gaza," the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement.
At least 1,799 people have died in Israeli reprisal strikes so far. At least 44 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in violence related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since Saturday, according to the health ministry.
By Friday afternoon, the ministry reported "nine martyrs by occupation (Israeli) bullets in the West Bank" and some 130 wounded across multiple locations, some critically.
At the northern entrance to Ramallah, an AFP photographer saw plumes of black smoke rising from burning tyres as Palestinians hurled rocks towards Israeli forces.
There were similar scenes in the northern city of Nablus, where Palestinians rallied, some holding models of rockets.
In both cities as well as in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, Palestinians waved Hamas flags.
Banners reading "Lift the siege on Gaza" and "Stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza" were carried through Hebron.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said by 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) its medics had treated 239 people in the West Bank including annexed east Jerusalem.
The casualties included 73 people with gunshot wounds and 137 suffering from tear gas inhalation.
At least three of the dead were in Tulkarem. In Beit Furik, near Nablus, a 14-year-old boy was killed, medical sources told AFP.
Deaths were also recorded in Beit Ula, Tammun, Bethelem and Hebron, the health ministry said in separate statements.