A year after Benjamin Netanyahu was reelected as Israeli prime minister, a survey said Friday that if elections were held now his right-wing coalition would lose its mandate to rule.

A poll by the Panels Research organization for the Jerusalem Post and Hebrew daily Maariv said that the coalition, which currently commands just a one-seat majority in Israel's 120-member parliament, would slip to 57 seats.

Two Palestinians stabbed an Israeli woman near a group of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank on Thursday before being shot dead, the army said, the latest in a months-long wave of violence.

The incident occurred at the Ariel junction in the West Bank. The wounded woman was being taken to hospital, while the two assailants were shot by forces at the scene, the Israeli army said.

Israel has declared 234 hectares of West Bank territory as state land, officials said Tuesday, leading a watchdog to warn of possible settlement expansion that could increase tensions with Palestinians.

COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body responsible for implementing government policies in the Palestinian territories, said the move was taken "in accordance with the decision of the political level".

Palestinian leaders expressed hope for a new French push for peace efforts in talks with a Paris envoy on Tuesday, after he faced skepticism in meetings with Israel.

Pierre Vimont, France's point man on efforts to hold an international peace conference by the summer, held talks Tuesday in Ramallah with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, foreign minister Riad al-Malki and top negotiator Saeb Erekat.

A six-year-old girl wounded in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip Saturday has died of her injuries, Palestinian medical sources told Agence France Presse, naming her as Israa Abu Khussa.

Her brother Yassin, 10, died earlier in a raid on a base of Hamas's military wing near their home in the northern Gaza village of Beit Lahiya. Another brother, Ayub, 13, suffered moderate injuries.

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday and fled the scene before being detained, police said.

The victim, an ultra-Orthodox man around 30 years old, was taken to hospital with stab wounds to his torso, medics said.

A Palestinian shot and seriously wounded two Israeli police officers in Jerusalem on Tuesday before being shot dead, Israeli authorities and medics said, as a five-month wave of attacks persisted.

The gunman opened fire on a group of police officers on a major commercial artery in annexed east Jerusalem near the Old City and wounded one, police said. He then fled and wounded another officer before being killed.

Most Israelis are unconvinced by right-wing claims that expansion of West Bank settlements bolsters the Jewish state's security, according to a survey by a U.S. institute published on Tuesday.

The Washington-based Pew Research Center said its research showed 30 percent of Jewish Israeli respondents to its latest study believe "the settlements hurt Israel’s security".

Israel is razing Palestinian homes and other buildings constructed with international aid at an "alarming" rate, the U.N. says, with more demolitions so far this year than in all of 2015.

In total 121 structures funded partly or fully by international donors were demolished in the occupied West Bank between January 1 and March 2, overtaking the 108 from all of 2015, according to U.N. figures seen by AFP.

A global Muslim body called Monday for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the "inalienable rights" of the Palestinians.

The call came at the end of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, which brought together representatives from 57 states.