600 children among 1,900 martyred in Israel attack on Gaza

Israeli strikes on Gaza since Hamas's cross-border attack have killed at least 1,900 people, including 614 children, the territory's health ministry said on Friday.

Some 370 women were among those killed in the seven days of air strikes, the Hamas-run health ministry said. It added that 7,696 people have been wounded.

Nine Palestinians were killed in the fresh Israeli fire across the occupied West Bank during rallies in solidarity with war-battered Gaza.

AFP correspondents and a security official reported clashes in Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarm, Hebron and other cities and towns across the West Bank, nearly a week after a Hamas strike on Saturday.

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 least three of the deaths were in Tulkarm. 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.