Wisam Faraj, 20, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during heavy clashes in the Shufat refugee camp that also left nearly 40 injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
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Israel has asked Facebook and YouTube to remove videos it says have been encouraging Palestinian violence against Israelis in the past week.
The Israeli prime minister has barred all Cabinet ministers and Jewish lawmakers from visiting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site, fearing any high-profile spectacle could further enflame tensions that have gripped the country for weeks, an Israeli government official said Thursday.
The assailant was shot dead by security forces after attacking passers-by with a screwdriver opposite the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, reports said.
Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian during clashes in east Jerusalem Thursday on their way to the home of a man accused of an earlier stabbing attack, medics said.
A soldier was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Afula.
Over the last week, four Israelis and seven Palestinians have been killed in the violence.
The stabbings – at least nine since Saturday – have deeply unnerved Israelis, and authorities have struggled to prevent them, with the suspects often young Palestinians believed to be acting on their own.
Non-Muslim visitors are only allowed to enter the site at specific hours and are banned by police from praying there.
Authorities on both sides have wrestled with how to respond.
Abbas told Palestinian business leaders in the West Bank capital of Ramallah that he would not be “dragged” into further violence with Israel and that he is committed to “peaceful popular resistance”.
The woman, a member of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), was assaulted near the Defence Ministry on Begin Avenue, police said.
“The mayor encourages licensed gun owners to carry their weapons to increase security”.
Palestinian anger is largely focused on events at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City and fears that Israel is trying to change the status quo at the holy site, revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount.
Leader of the Opposition Isaac Herzog said the West Bank should be sealed until the wave of violence that Israel is now facing subsides.
Israeli police on Thursday installed metal detectors at the gates to the Old City and elsewhere in East Jerusalem to warn of persons carrying knives or guns.
There have been several days of clashes at the site over the past few weeks as Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque while hurling stones, firebombs and fireworks at police.
“We don’t need more detonators to ignite the area”, he said at a news conference on Thursday.
Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Israeli rules of engagement vis-à-vis unarmed protesters violated global law, noting that a 13-year-old Palestinian boy had been killed when security forces fired on a crowd in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
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“One of the advantages Israel has is that there are many veterans of military units with operational combat experience”, he said.
