Veteran Israeli dove Yossi Sarid, who championed the cause of a Palestinian state over a political career spanning three decades, died on Friday evening at the age of 75.

Sarid, who was a member of parliament from 1974 to 2006 and served in the government of Yitzhak Rabin which signed the Oslo accords with the Palestinians in the 1990s, died of a heart attack at his home in Tel Aviv.

A Palestinian driver ran over and injured two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank Friday before being shot dead, Israeli security services said.

"A Palestinian rammed his vehicle at IDF soldiers" near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra north of Ramallah, an army statement said.

Israeli authorities said Thursday they had arrested several alleged Jewish extremists over the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank that killed a toddler and his parents.

Israel faces mounting pressure to bring the perpetrators of the July attack to justice, with a UN envoy on Wednesday expressing concern over the "slow progress" in the probe.

Abu Malak has spent 17 years working at a petrol station at a major junction near Jerusalem where Israelis and Palestinians cross paths, but lately there's been a change.

"Some (Israeli) customers still talk to us normally, but others look at us strangely and think that we're all terrorists," said the 38-year-old Palestinian.

Israel on Wednesday demolished the home of a Palestinian who carried out a deadly car-ramming attack last year, sparking clashes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood where the operation occurred.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported a number of injuries without providing details.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned a wave of Palestinian attacks as he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday in his latest bid to ease nearly two months of violence.

Arriving with scant hopes for a major breakthrough, Kerry said he would discuss with Netanyahu and later Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah ways of calming tensions.

An Israeli and three Palestinian attackers -- including a schoolgirl -- were killed in another day of violence Monday, on the eve of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit in a bid to ease the bloodshed.

In the earliest attack, the first in Jerusalem for nearly two weeks, two teenaged girls stabbed an elderly man before being shot, police said.

Egypt border guards Monday shot dead five Sudanese and wounded six others in a gunfight near the Israeli border as the African migrants tried to cross into Israel, the army said.

The firefight broke out at dawn when a group of Sudanese migrants "helped by criminals" trying to cross were stopped by border guards, the army said in a statement.

The Israeli army on Monday prohibited Palestinians from entering a large settlement bloc in the occupied West Bank after the weekend stabbing death of a 21-year-old woman and a shooting attack last week.

The move comes as Israel seeks to halt nearly two months of violence, including knife, gun and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians.

A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hit an open field in southern Israel on Monday morning, the Israeli army said in a statement.

"No injuries have been reported," it added.