Kerry calls Netanyahu, Abbas over Palestinian unrest

Palestinian sources identified the assailant as 18-year-old Fadel al-Kawatsmi and confirmed his death.

Shortly after, Israeli border police stopped to question a Palestinian man walking in "a suspicious manner" through a neighborhood around East Jerusalem, a police spokesman said.

A bystander had reported the youth as acting suspiciously.

Meanwhile in east Jerusalem, a Palestinian tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint but was shot dead.

During a police body search after he'd been shot, the man pulled out a second knife and was shot dead after he tried to stab another officer.

Sunday's incident comes after another bloody day in which Palestinian assailants carried out five stabbing attacks against Israelis in Jerusalem and the West Bank, as a month-long outburst of violence showed no signs of abating.

Around 2, one hundred Palestinians, majority civilians, and seventy three Israelis, majority troopers, have been killed.

The Palestinian United Nations ambassador is urging the Security Council to immediately provide worldwide protection for the Palestinian people as as trigger-happy Israeli police killed three more Palestinians in east Jerusalem and occupied West Bank on Saturday. Later, police said a Palestinian woman stabbed a female officer at a border police base in Hebron and lightly injured her before the officer shot her dead.

The violence began on October 1, when a suspected cell of the Islamist movement Hamas murdered a Jewish settler couple in the West Bank.

The violence has sparked fears that a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising against Israeli occupation, could break out.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said that dozens of Palestinians hurled rocks and rolled burning tyres at soldiers who called on them to halt, used "riot dispersal means" and then, after the Palestinians did not desist, opened fire with.

In the first Hebron incident, a Palestinian tried to stab a settler before his intended victim, who was unharmed, shot him dead, the army said. "A knife was found at the scene afterwards, but it was more of an attack by the settler", our correspondent said.

Uri Nuriel, 31, said he was riding his bike in Jerusalem on Saturday when he noticed a Palestinian smiling oddly.

"He allegedly took out a knife and attacked the police officer".

The street violence, a few of the worst in years, has been intensified by conflicting witness accounts and amateur video that has been interpreted in different ways.

Kerry, in Milan as part of a European tour, spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, the State Department official said, to discuss "how best to end the recent wave of violence, and to offer US support for efforts to restore calm as soon as possible".

In that time, 31 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, including 14 labeled by Israel as attackers, and the rest in clashes with Israeli troops.

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem strongly condemns this attack.

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