(8 Aug 2014) Dozens of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli troops in Hebron on Friday, while thousands of Hamas supporters marched through the streets of the southern West Bank city in a show of support for Palestinians in Gaza.
A similar demonstration took place in Ramallah, with Hamas supporters holding banners reading "Gaza and the West Bank are united" and "We are all part of the resistance."
Gaza militants resumed rocket attacks on Israel on Friday, refusing to extend a three-day truce after Egyptian-brokered talks between Israel and Hamas on a new border deal for blockaded Gaza hit a deadlock.
Israel responded with a series of airstrikes, including one that killed a 10-year-old boy and wounded five children near a Gaza City mosque, Palestinian officials said.
Two Israelis were wounded by rocket fire, police said.
Hamas had entered the Cairo talks from a position of military weakness, following a month of fighting in which Israel pounded Gaza with close to 5,000 strikes.
The heavy toll of the war appears to have made Hamas even more resistant to returning to the status quo.
The group is unlikely to accept a cease-fire without assurances that Gaza's borders will be opened - particularly after the fighting left close to 1,900 Gaza residents dead, more than 9,000 wounded and tens of thousands displaced, with entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble.
Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, and have since enforced it to varying degrees.
The closure led to widespread hardship in the Mediterranean seaside territory, home to 1.8 million people.
Movement in and out of Gaza is limited, the economy has ground to a standstill and unemployment is over 50 percent.
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