In a news conference on Thursday night, Mr Netanyahu insisted Israel was facing “wave of terrorist attacks” and vowed to bring the violence under control and restore security.
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As well as tensions over al-Aqsa, Palestinian anger has mounted as Israeli forces have taken a tougher line against protesters who are violent.
“Gaza will fulfill its role in the Quds (Jerusalem) intifada and it is more than ready for confrontation”. Kirby said he had no details on that when asked.
Witnesses said they had been fired at by Israeli snipers in guardposts along the border fence, about 400 metres away from where the Palestinians were protesting. They enjoy full citizenship rights but have long complained of discrimination in housing, jobs and other areas of society.
“This is Friday, this is the day of rage…”
But in the last two months, Israel has intermittently restricted a few Muslims from the compound when Jews visit.
Riyad Mansour told The Associated Press that the recent actions by the Israeli military are “disgraceful”.
“The current clashes are being led by a young generation with no collective memory of the second intifada, which created very strong deterrence among the Palestinian leadership”. Another security assessment will be made before Friday prayers, Israeli police said.
The woman was shot in her lower body and treated at a hospital.
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid reacted harshly to Friday’s terror attack by a Jew in Dimona, saying that, “anyone who is willing to act in such a manner does not understand the essence of Judaism”. Gaza medics said six people were killed and 50 wounded. In a separate incident, Palestinians killed two Israeli men and wounded a mother and toddler in Jerusalem. “They always shoot at the border, but it’s much worse today than usual”.
Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the Palestinian was 15 years old.
The Palestinians, according to the IDF, began hurling rocks at soldiers and rolling burning tires at them.
“Forces on the site responded with fire toward the main instigators to prevent their progress and disperse the riot”, she said.
The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, called on Palestinians to step up their fight against Israel, describing the recent surge in violence in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank as the beginning of a new uprising, or intifada.
Mourners marched in a funeral procession for Mohannad Halabi after prayers on Friday afternoon.
Many of these knife and gun attacks on Israelis have been concentrated in Jerusalem, the city that both sides claim as their capital.
Halabi was wrapped in various Palestinian flags and held aloft on a stretcher through the crowd.
Stabbing attacks in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel itself along with rioting have raised fears of a third Palestinian intifada, following a first that began in 1987 and a second in 2000.
“Israeli civilians are at the forefront of a war against terrorism and must also be on maximum alert”, he said Wednesday after visiting a Jerusalem police headquarters.
Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli teenager in Jerusalem wounding him lightly. Israeli security forces are still looking for that attacker. The attack left four people lightly wounded, including the soldier.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “strongly condemned the harming of innocent Arabs”.
Last week, Palestinians shot two Israelis to death in front of their children in the West Bank.
Five of those injured are in critical condition, the sources said. Police units capture terrorist at scene. Soon after police received reports of another stabbing in the area and arrested an Israeli man. Israeli media reported the stabber said after his arrest that he carried out the attacks in retaliation for the numerous Palestinian attacks on Israelis this week. She said the attacks were likely “nationalistically” motivated.
A Palestinian stabbing attack had occurred in the same city a day before.
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Israeli police are barring young Muslim men from Jerusalem’s most sensitive site as a measure to ensure calm after several days of violence. Samri said men under 45 are barred from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound while women of all ages can enter.
