Earlier, three Israelis were stabbed in attacks near the central bus station in Rishon LeZion, about 10km south of Tel Aviv, Israel said.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for returning to the status quo that was in force in Jerusalem before 2000, without any Israeli intervention.
Many attackers who have targeted Israeli forces come from Hebron, a stronghold of the Islamist movement Hamas.
Since mid-September, 11 Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings, while 69 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 43 who Israel says were involved in attacks or attempted attacks.
Israel says the barrier, which stretches inside the West Bank, is necessary for security, while Palestinians brand it an “apartheid wall”. One of the two Palestinian attackers was a teenager from Hebron, police said. 31 of the orders were given due to activity on social media while 3 of them were issued against Palestinian minors in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem’s Haddasah hospital said in a statement that it was treating a casualty of the incident “a man of about 20…”
“The demolition order on the 120-square-meter mosque will be implemented in the next few days”, it added.
Israel occupied east Jerusalem in 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the worldwide community.
In Gaza, the Islamist group Hamas that controls the territory has openly encouraged violence, publishing videos online that urge Palestinians to join a new “knife intifada”, or uprising, against Israeli occupation.
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Since the 1994 massacre of 29 Palestinian worshippers at the mosque by Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein, Israeli authorities have kept Muslim and Jewish worshippers at the site strictly segregated. He stressed that they would be installed in cooperation with the Palestinians.
