Palestinian demonstrators hurl rocks toward Israeli forces during clashes near the Jewish settlement of Beit El near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Israel faced a widening conflict, as deadly violence escalated across the West Bank amid a massive aerial bombardment in Gaza and unprecedented unrest among Arabs and Jews inside the country. The West Bank clashes, described as among the most intense since the second intifada that began in 2000, left seven people dead from Israeli fire, the Palestinian health ministry said, as the death toll from strikes in Gaza rose to 122.
