A Palestinian wounded in early December during clashes with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank has died of his injuries, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday.

Shadi Ghabish died overnight at his home near the Jalazon refugee camp from complications after undergoing two operations at a Ramallah hospital to remove bullets from his body, the ministry said.

General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim carried out on Thursday a tour of security stations on the southern border with Israel, hailing the security forces' national role, reported the National News Agency on Friday.

He said: “One of our greatest national and political constants are that we are faced by Israeli aggression and takfiri terrorism.”

A Palestinian drove his car into Israeli forces in the northern West Bank on Thursday before being shot dead, the Israeli army said.

"A Palestinian attacker rammed his vehicle into forces securing routes near Huwara and wounded a soldier," an army statement said, referring to a checkpoint near Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank.

An Israeli stabbed near a religious site in the occupied West Bank earlier this month has died, a hospital spokesman said on Wednesday.

Genadi Kaufman, 41, was seriously injured near the Jewish holy site the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on December 7 by a Palestinian who stabbed him before being shot dead by Israeli border guards.

Israel's top court on Tuesday upheld a bribery conviction against former premier Ehud Olmert, which will make him the country's first ex-prime minister to serve jail time.

The 70-year-old, who was prime minister from 2006 to 2009, was sentenced in May last year to six years in prison on two separate charges of taking bribes in the early 2000s.

A Palestinian wounded at the Gaza border in clashes with the Israeli army last week died early Monday from his injuries, the Gaza health ministry said.

Yusef al-Beheiri, 48, died after being shot east of the Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Hamas-ruled coastal strip, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

Two Palestinians in the West Bank stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier on Sunday and were shot dead by troops, the army said, the latest in a three-month wave of attacks.

The Palestinian health ministry said that the assailants were Mohammed Sabaaneh, aged 17, and Nur Eddine Sabaaneh, 23, from Qabatia near Jenin in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Israel charged two Arab cousins from towns near northern city Nazareth for ties to the Islamic State group and planning an attack, the Shin Bet domestic security agency said Thursday.

Mohammad Hassan, 20, from Rina, and Ahmed Saida, 23, from Umm el Ghanam, were arrested in November, the Shin Bet said.

New violence erupted in the West Bank Thursday, with three Palestinian attackers shot dead as they carried out stabbings and a car ramming and another killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers.

The upsurge came after nearly three months of attacks and protests but with the violence having become less frequent in recent weeks.

A rocket filled with cluster bombs, dropped by Israel during the July 2006 war, was discovered in the South, reported the National News Agency.

The discovery was made by Abbas Yaghi as he was surveying a field in Western Zawtar in al-Nabatiyeh.