Four Israelis have been killed and eight injured in an alleged terror attack by two Palestinian men armed with axes, knives, and a pistol outside a synagogue in west Jerusalem.
A driver has been shot dead by security officials after ramming his car into several pedestrians in East Jerusalem.
Does this month’s escalation in violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank mean that a third intifada – a Palestinian uprising against the Israel’s occupation, following those of 1987 and 2000 – is imminent?
MPs have voted in favour of recognising Palestine as an independent state alongside Israel.
Israel has been widely criticised after announcing that it would seize nearly 1,000 acres of Palestinian land near Bethlehem in the West Bank.