Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the Israeli targeted in a Jerusalem shooting attack, is one of the most high-profile campaigners for Jewish prayer rights at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Like others in the messianic nationalist right Glick, 48, is loathed by Palestinians who see any Jewish presence on the plateau in the Old City, which houses Islam's third-holiest shrine, as an intolerable provocation.

Clashes raged in east Jerusalem Thursday after police shot dead a Palestinian accused of trying to kill a Jewish hardliner, prompting officials to close the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Israel said its closure of the shrine, which is holy to Jews and Muslims, was a temporary measure aimed at calming tempers, but Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said it was tantamount to a "declaration of war".

An Israeli official denied Tuesday the existence of a blanket ban on Palestinians sharing buses with settlers in the occupied West Bank, after the Jewish state was accused of racial segregation.

"There is no prohibition on traveling on buses with Israelis," a senior source at the defense ministry wrote in response to a query from AFP.

The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss Israeli plans to build more Jewish settlements in Arab east Jerusalem, diplomats said.

The urgent talks were requested by Jordan following a letter from Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour, who called on the 15-member council to "address this crisis situation in occupied east Jerusalem."

Israeli-Palestinian talks on a lasting Gaza truce are to resume after mid-November, instead of Monday as initially planned, the chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad told AFP Sunday.

The announcement came after other Palestinian officials said the talks had been postponed due to Egypt's closure of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip.

Police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians in east Jerusalem as tensions mounted ahead of a funeral Sunday for a Palestinian who ploughed his car into a crowd of Israelis, killing a baby.

Police said at least five Palestinians were arrested overnight Sunday as nightly clashes continued across Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.

Israeli police clashed with Palestinians in east Jerusalem on Saturday and braced for more ahead of the funeral of a Palestinian driver who drove into a crowd, killing an Israeli baby.

With tensions further stoked after the army shot dead a West Bank teenager on Friday there were also reports of stoning of Israeli vehicles on roads around Ramallah.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager Friday in a clash with stone-throwing protesters near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian medical officials and security sources told AFP.

They named the dead youth as Orwa Hammad, 17, and said he was shot in the village of Silwad.

Israeli settlers moved into 10 new homes in annexed east Jerusalem on Monday, activists said, in spite of fierce local opposition and international condemnation of such takeovers.

According to Jawad Siyyam, a Palestinian activist who heads the Silwan Community Centre, a group of Jewish settlers moved into two buildings in the neighborhood.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization called Saturday for a comprehensive strategy against Islamic extremism while addressing the conflict with Israel, alluding to controversial remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

The top U.S. diplomat, after his return from a Middle East trip, infuriated Israeli ministers Thursday when he said the unresolved conflict was fueling recruitment for the Islamic State group.