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On Tuesday Israel demolished homes of two Palestinian militants who carried out deadly attacks in Jerusalem a year ago.

Israeli forces were deployed in large numbers across East Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighbourhoods earlier in the day ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and the Jewish fast of Yom Kippur, both on Wednesday.

Palestinian protesters scuffled with Israeli security forces at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday.

Local residents, however, dispute the army’s claims that the woman – identified as 18-year-old Hadeel Hashlmon – had attacked a soldier.

Clashes broke out between masked Palestinians and Israeli security forces at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, the last day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, police said.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor took issue with the statement for largely ignoring the Jewish people’s connection to the Temple Mount.

In a sign of the increasingly tense situation, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian attacker on Tuesday after she tried to stab a soldier at a West Bank checkpoint.

An overwhelming majority of Palestinians, at 88%, think the PA should bring Israel to the ICC to stand trial for building settlements on the “occupied territories”, an Israeli enterprise most Palestinians (65%) think has nullified prospects for a two-state solution....