The UN Security Council will hold closed-door talks on Monday about deadly Israeli-Palestinian unrest over new security measures at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site, diplomats said.
The meeting - requested by Sweden, France and Egypt - would be to "urgently discuss how calls for de-escalation in Jerusalem can be supported," said Sweden's political affairs coordinator Carl Skau.
There were fresh clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces yesterday following the deaths of six people in the region.
Two Palestinians died in clashes yesterday.
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The Palestinian Health Ministry said a 17-year-old had been hit by live fire and critically wounded at Al-Azariya east of Jerusalem.
Another Palestinian, aged 18, died in the West Bank village of Abu Dis when a petrol bomb he was planning to throw at Israeli security forces exploded prematurely, the Ministry said.
It has been the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years.
Yesterday, Israeli security forces raided the home of the Palestinian attacker who stabbed the Israelis.
Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police outside the attacker's village of Kobar following the raid.
The military said that movement for Palestinians from the village has been restricted.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said security forces "surveyed the house of the assailant in the village of Khobar, searched for weapons and confiscated money used for terror purposes. The brother of the assailant was also apprehended."
"Movement out of the village will be limited to humanitarian cases only," she said.
Three Israelis were stabbed to death in a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hours after three Palestinians were killed in violence prompted by Israel's installation of metal detectors at entry points to the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's walled Old City.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the suspension of all official contact with Israel until it removed the metal detectors at the site, where Muslims pray at al-Aqsa mosque.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with senior commanders in the West Bank to assess the situation and said the attacker's home would be promptly demolished, in line with Israeli policy.
He called on Mr Abbas to condemn the attack, describing it as a "slaughter".
The three Israelis stabbed to death, and a fourth who was wounded, were from the fenced-in West Bank settlement of Neve Tsuf.
The attacker, 20-year-old Omar Alabed, was shot and taken to a hospital for treatment, the military said.
Palestinian worshippers had clashed with Israeli security forces before the attack.
Tensions had mounted for days as Palestinians hurled rocks and Israeli police used stun grenades after the detectors were placed outside the sacred venue, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said three Palestinians died of gunshot wounds in two neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem, some distance away from the epicentre of tension.
Israel decided to install the metal detectors at the entry point to the shrine in Jerusalem last Sunday, after the killing of two Israeli policemen on 14 July.
