JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel put on a huge show of force on Friday to counter any repetition of a day of rage in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in which nine Palestinians were killed. "We have deployed very large forces...around the Temple Mount and in the east of the city as well as in the west," said Jerusalem district police chief Yair Yitzhaki, appealing on Israel Radio for calm during Friday's Moslem prayers. Thousands of Palestinians were expected to pray at al-Aqsq mosque in Jerusalem's Old City and Yitzhaki said Israel had intelligence information there would be "attempts to cause disturbances". "We will not tolerate stone-throwing at our forces or towards the Wailing Wall," he said, referring to Judaism's holiest site at the foot of the Temple Mount, a holy compound that Moslems call Haram al-Sharif. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers were taking steps to ensure funerals of the victims would not trigger a fresh wave of clashes, officials said. In Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright failed again on Thursday to achieve a breakthrough in Middle East peace talks. Albright and Netanyahu ended a second round of talks with no deal on a U.S. proposal that Israel hand over to the Palestinians another 13 percent of the West Bank. The 14-month peacemaking deadlock fuelled some of the Palestinian frustration vented on Thursday when hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets to mark "Nakba", or "Catastrophe" resulting from Israel's creation in 1948. It turned into the bloodiest day in the West Bank and Gaza in almost two years. An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers opened fire only when their lives were in danger. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat accused the troops of killing innocent civilians. Palestinian police said eight Palestinians, including two eight-year-old boys, were killed in the Gaza Strip as Israeli soldiers fired bullets and teargas to disperse protesters who hurled stones and petrol bombs. A 23-year-old protester from Ramallah took a bullet in the eye and died in hospital hours later, becoming the day's ninth casualty, his relatives said. Palestinian Health Ministry officials said 400 Palestinian protesters were wounded in Gaza and the West Bank. Israeli officials said 20 Israeli policemen and two civilians were hurt but gave no Palestinian casualty count. The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) protested to the United Nations on Thursday over the killing and wounding of Palestinians and called for unspecified action by the Security Council.