Palestinian groups call for 'day of rage' after death of teenager

Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem on Sunday night after a day of violence in the city left two people wounded and an attacker killed.

The bloodshed, and the closure of a Palestinian radio station accused of incitement, came with Israeli security forces struggling to halt two months of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming assaults.

Several weeks ago, an Israeli security crackdown in Jerusalem, including roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods, was followed by a lull in attacks in the city, but violence has returned.

Late on Sunday Israeli border police killed 17-year-old Ayman Samih Abassi during clashes in occupied east Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry said.

An Israeli police statement said that officers fired at a Palestinian holding a petrol bomb in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood after they came under attack from a volley of the missiles, but they could not confirm hitting him.

"About 10 petrol bombs were thrown at border police officers in Ras al-Amud," the statement said.

"The force, whose lives were in immediate danger, fired at the lower body of a suspect who was seen with a petrol bomb in his hand," it added. "A hit could not be definitely identified."

In response, several Palestinian activist groups in Jerusalem, such as Fatah's youth movement, have called for a "day of rage and mourning" on Monday.

"We call for an escalation against the occupation in wake of the murder and execution of the martyr Abasi," said Fatah’s youth movement in a statement.

From the group’s perspective, the day of rage is an "adequate response to the Israeli government's ongoing policy of executions against the Palestinian people."

Early Sunday morning, a Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli border police officer at Damascus Gate, a main entry point for Palestinians to east Jerusalem's Old City.

The attacker was identified as Bassem Salah, 38, from the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Later, a foreign woman of around 30 was lightly wounded in a stabbing near a bus stop in west Jerusalem and the attacker fled.

Violence since 1 October has left 100 dead on the Palestinian side, as well as 17 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean