Tension is continuing to mount in Israel over a string of recent stabbings by Palestinians and an intense crackdown by the Israeli government.

Israel and Jordan have agreed on moves aimed at reducing tensions surrounding a prominent holy site in Jerusalem.

Germany has insisted it was responsible for the Holocaust, after Israel's prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe's Jews.

In the latest unrest, an Israeli soldier is killed in a shooting at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, the first such attack after a day in which violence seemed to somewhat ebb.

Four Palestinians are shot dead and a fifth wounded in attacks on Israelis in east Jerusalem and the West Bank Saturday, as violence that has fuelled concerns of an uprising showed no let-up.

Palestinians torched a site revered by Jews in the West Bank overnight, Israeli and Palestinian sources said on Friday.

Attacks have continued in parts of Jerusalem only hours after Israeli forces launched a major security operation in Arab areas of the city.

Israeli forces have begun a major security operation in Arab areas of occupied East Jerusalem, after a surge in attacks by Palestinians.

The Netherlands' miserable European Championship qualifying campaign came to an end with a 3-2 defeat to the Czech Republic on Tuesday.

Israel says its jets have hit two targets in the Gaza Strip, which killed a woman and her young daughter in a nearby house.

Two Israelis have been killed and three injured in separate attacks in Jerusalem by Palestinians who were then shot dead by police.

Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for a third straight day on Tuesday.

Seeking to sell his nuclear deal with Iran to a skeptical Israeli public, President Barack Obama has repeatedly declared his deep affection for the Jewish state. But the feelings do not appear to be mutual.

A large dust storm hits western parts of the Middle East, putting dozens of people in hospital and leading to public health warnings.

A Palestinian woman has died of injuries she sustained during an arson attack on her home in the West Bank that killed her husband and infant son.

Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria have demolished a Christian monastery in al-Qaryatain town in Homs province.

Bridging the gap between Iran and the West would help soften Iran's present voice against Israel through a possible political and social transformation in favour of the West.

Bangladesh expresses deep condolences and sympathies to the victims of arson attack committed by the Israeli settlers on a Palestinian house that burnt an infant to death and injured his parents and four-year-old brother.

Palestinian officials say Israel is "fully responsible" for the death of an infant in an arson attack blamed on Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

The Israeli defence ministry says that two Israelis, including an Arab, were being held captive in the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas of holding one of them.