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Mass rallies for Palestinian state bid

Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied across the West Bank on Wednesday in a massive show of support for the campaign to become a member state at the United Nations.

The rallies, widely hailed as the biggest public gatherings since the end of the second Palestinian uprising in 2005, are part of the build up to Friday, when president Mahmud Abbas is to request UN membership for a state of Palestine on the lines which existed before the 1967 Six-Day War.

``Tens of thousands of Palestinians are taking part in rallies across the West Bank,'' Palestinian security services spokesman Adnan Damiri told AFP.

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