LIVE BLOG: The Third Intifada - the unrest continues
Here's a summary of the latest developments as Israeli-Palestinians tensions rise:
- On Saturday three Palestinian teenagers, incluing one woman, were shot dead in theree separate incidents after reportedly attempting to stab Israelis in Hebron and East Jerusalem.
- Early Friday, hundreds of Palestinian youths attacked a site in Nablus - the exact target of the attack remains disputed
- A Palestinian man was shot dead in Hebron after stabbing and wounding an Israeli police officer
- Three Palestinian protesters shot dead by Israeli soldiers - two at the Gaza border and one in Nablus - with clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces also reported in East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Hebron. Another Palestinian who was shot in Gaza protests last week has died of his wounds.
- UN Security Council scheduled to hold an emergency meeting at 1500 GMT to discuss the upsurge of violence
- Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinian protesters with live fire the central occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday, while one young man was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in his eye and is in moderate to serious condition.
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Israeli forces prevented marches across the West Bank on Sunday, as clashes continued for the 17th consecutive day.
In Hebron, Israeli forces stopped a march held by Palestinian students from Hebron's Polytechnic University near the Israeli settlement of Beit Hijai in the southern occupied West Bank, locals said.
Israeli forces shot tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at protesters, while the Palestinian students launched stones at Israeli forces, reported Maan News.
In Tulkarem, Israeli forces shot tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinian students from al-Khadouri University in the northern occupied West Bank, after clashes broke out during an anti-occupation protest at the university.
In Bethlehem Israeli forces reportedly hit a 15-year-old Palestinian in the head with a tear gas canister in Dar Salah village in east Bethlehem during clashes in the area.
Israel on Sunday rejected a proposal to send international observers to a flashpoint holy site in a bid to calm unrest.
But US Secretary of State John Kerry said he planned to meet both the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the coming days.
Israeli forces closed the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip after clashes broke out there late Saturday, a Palestinian liaison said.
The crossing was reportedly damaged during clashes that broke out near the site, reported Maan News.
Israeli police late Saturday detained 28 Palestinian workers in Sakhnin and Arraba neighborhoods who had allegedly entered Israeli territory without proper permissions, Israeli media said.
According to Walla Hebrew news site, Israeli police also detained 76 Palestinian workers last week who had reportedly entered Israeli illegally.
Israel presses ahead with major security measures Sunday while ultra-Orthodox Jews illegally visiting a West Bank holy site set ablaze last week were assaulted by Palestinians.
The incident at the holy site overnight and the stabbing attacks or attempts on Saturday came after more than two weeks of relentless violence and unrest, raising fears of a full-scale Palestinian uprising.
The incident saw a group of about 30 religious students from a school in Jerusalem travel to Joseph's Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Nablus despite not having the required authorisation from Israel's military.
They told police they intended to repaint the shrine after the fire.
According to Israeli authorities, Palestinian police beat at least some of them with their batons and the butts of their guns. A group of Palestinian civilians arrived afterward and also beat them, according to Israeli police.
They were not reported to have been seriously injured.
More than 200 Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Wad al-Haseen and Wad al-Nasara near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba overnight in the eastern Hebron district of the occupied southern West Bank, locals and medics said.
During the attack, Israeli settlers threw stones and firebombs at Palestinian homes and injured at least three people, two of which were minors, while Israeli forces later shot and injured one Palestinian with live fire.
According Israeli media, a Palestinian tried to stab a border police officer at the Qalandia guard post near Ramallah. The assailant was shot and killed. Jerusalem Police said the assailant jabbed at the officer but failed to pierce through his protective vest. Officers fired at the assailant's lower body, and he fell down. When a sapper examined the assailant for explosives, he grabbed a pair of scissors from the sapper and tried to stab him. A Border Police officer then fired at the assailant, killing him.
A search of the body found two more knives, the police said in a statement. He was later identified as Omar Mohammed al-Faqih, 23, from Qalandia.
A Palestinian was shot after stabbing an Israeli soldier in Hebron, in the third such attack Saturday in the West Bank town, the army said.
"A Palestinian assailant stabbed an IDF (army) soldier in Hebron. The soldier was moderately wounded ... The attacker was shot on site," it said in a statement without elaborating on his condition.
Reported in Haaretz, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said a 30-year-old pregnant woman and her four-year-old daughter died after her house collapsed following Israeli airstrikes in the area.
Al-Qedra added that four members of the woman's family were injured in the building's collapse.
Eleven Palestinians have died in Gaza since clashes erupted Friday between Palestinians and Israeli forces along the border.
Another Palestinian has been shot after allegedly attacking a soldier in Hebron, the Israel army said.
Around 2000 demonstrators rallied in support of Palestinians in front of the Israeli Embassy on London's Kensington Hight Street on Satruday.
"In the thousnds, in the millions, we are all Palestinians," chanted the group as they waved Palestinian flags in the air.
A few public figures, including former MP George Galloway, attended the rally.
We support the Intifada, not becasue we support violence, but because we are against it, said Galloway.
The violence of the occupier [Israel] is much worse than that of the occupied [Palestinians], he added.
While the rally ended peacefully, two demonstrators carrying Hezbollah flags were detained by the London Metropolitan police.
Rally organisers had requested that all participants only carry Palestinian flags.
The mother of Palestinian Eyad Awawda, who stabbed and wounded a soldier at an entrance to the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba before being shot dead, mourns over his body during his funeral on 17 October in al-Muwareq, near the West.
Hundreds of Palestinian mourners on Saturday took part in the funeral march of Eyad Awawdeh, 26, who was shot dead on Friday after stabbing an Israeli soldier near the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron.
Israel's army said the soldier had been moderately wounded as a result of the attack.
Mourners toured the streets of Awawdeh's hometown of al-Muwarraq, carrying his body wrapped with a Palestinian flag.
The body was later taken to the village’s cemetery and buried.
Mourners reportedly chanted slogans urging Palestinian fighters to take revenge.