Also Wednesday, a suspected Palestinian militant stabbed an Israeli soldier in southern Israel before other soldiers shot him dead.
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Earlier, another Palestinian was shot dead after stabbing an Israeli soldier and injuring four others in the Israeli city Tel Aviv.
New violence rocked Israel and the Israeli occupied West Bank, including an incident in which men thought to be undercover Israeli police opened fire on Palestinian stone throwers they had infiltrated, wounding three of them.
“Israel should abide by global standards and immediately cancel the loosened rules of engagement for police”, Stork added, referring to a recent Israeli government decision to allow troops to use live ammunition against stone-throwing protesters.
“Those who think that terror can defeat the spirit of the nation of Israel and can stop us implementing our historical rights in every part of the land of Israel, should see us here today and understand that we will not be beaten”, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin was quoted as saying by Ynet.
The first attack – at a railway station in the north of Jerusalem – saw a 19-year-old Palestinian knife a 25-year-old religious student, who is said to be in a serious condition in hospital.
According to an Israeli official, Netanyahu ordered the ban on the holy site because he was concerned that any high-profile visits there could spark further violence.
The violence later spread to Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and to the West Bank, and on Tuesday there were disturbances in Jaffa, a largely Arab area of Tel Aviv.
The Palestinian Authority Health Department reported that six Palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded in the past week’s clashes with security forces.
The spokeswoman said those injured had been attacked “for nationalist reasons, because they were Arabs”. In the last week Israeli forces also wounded more than 630 Palestinians in demonstrations across the West Bank and Jerusalem according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The attack took place near the site of a fatal stabbing on Saturday night in which two Orthodox Jews were killed.
A second destroyed house belonged to a Palestinian killed by police in August 2014 after a construction vehicle he was driving fatally struck an Israeli pedestrian in occupied Jerusalem.
He said a “prompt and transparent” probe into the killing of a Bethlehem teenager by the Israeli army during rioting on Monday would serve to determine “whether the use of force was proportional”.
New metal detector erected by Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City.
At the heart of the recent tensions is a hilltop compound revered by Muslims and Jews.
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“The mayor encourages licensed gun owners to carry their weapons to increase security”, the statement read. The rise of more “lone wolf attacks”, be it by settler youth in the West Bank or more pedestrian Palestinian attacks that come without coordination from terrorist groups, have given a few sense of spontaneity to the violence.
