Hours later, the army stated it had shot dead one other Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier within the Palestinian metropolis of Hebron.
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The Palestinian president called on the global community to move from words to action on justice for Palestinians urgently in need of protection.
Tensions rose over a long-running Palestinian fear that Israelis are planning to change the rules governing the site that is sacred to both Muslims and Jews, and lies in annexed east Jerusalem.
The official, however, said there was no discussion of the matter at the forum and Mr Netanyahu did not ask that it be included on the agenda of a future meeting.
Mogherini, who met Monday in Brussels with Abbas and last week with Netanyahu, also said that in the next few weeks Mideast Quartet representatives will engage directly with the parties in order to kick-start peace talks.
As tensions continue to rise, rights groups have slammed Israel for its harsh measures as it continues to crack down on Palestinians.
Increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the compound, which is Islam’s holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples, have led to Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “status quo” under which Jewish prayer there is banned.
Attacks and unrest quickly spread deeper into Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Israel has responded with a crackdown in Palestinian neighborhoods, deploying thousands of security forces and placing roadblocks and military-style checkpoints at the entrances. Israel says soldiers and police are acting in self-defence.
Numerous youths behind the attacks are also from the city.
In all, 10 Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings, while 52 Palestinians, including 30 identified by Israel as attackers, have been killed by Israeli fire. Clashes erupted at the shrine between young Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli security forces.
Hotovely, from Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party, told Knesset TV that Jews should be allowed to pray at Al-Aqsa, but later issued a statement saying: “My personal opinions are not government policy”.
Abbas said the human rights situation in the occupied territories was at its “worst and most critical since 1948” – the year of Israel’s independence and the Palestinian “nakbah” (catastrophe).
The Jerusalem area has been, in the past month, the scene of escalating violence between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. Forces shot the Palestinian.
An Israeli hospital says a dual Israeli-American citizen critically wounded in a Palestinian attack two weeks ago has died of his wounds.
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The bodies would be buried in plots reserved for attackers, “as has been done in the past”. The channel, citing Israel’s Justice Ministry, reported the woman was mentally unstable and suicidal and carried the knife with her into the bus station so that she could be shot and killed by Israeli forces.
