Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit out at an Arab Israeli lawmaker's defiance Wednesday of a ban on visits by members of parliament to the highly sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.

Basel Ghattas, a Christian member of the Israeli parliament for the Arab Joint List coalition, told AFP he visited the holy site on Wednesday morning "to show Netanyahu we don't recognize his authority over the mosque."

One person was critically injured at dawn on Wednesday after coming under fire by Israeli troops in the occupied town of Ghajar, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the soldiers shot at a person, who was attempting to hide behind a sand barrier in the Lebanese section of the town.

An Israeli court on Tuesday ordered the jailing of a firebrand cleric whose Islamist group has been accused of “inciting” a wave of violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Raed Salah, the head of the radical northern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was found guilty on appeal of inciting violence at the holy site in a 2007 speech.

Hundreds of British academics said Tuesday they would boycott contact with Israeli universities over the state's "intolerable human rights violations" towards Palestinians.

The announcement, entitled "A commitment by UK scholars to the rights of Palestinians", was printed as a full-page advertisement in The Guardian newspaper.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Tuesday to contain inflammatory rhetoric from his government over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, at the heart of a wave of deadly Palestinian unrest.

With efforts to defuse tensions already strained, deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely stoked Palestinian fears by saying it was her "dream to see the Israeli flag flying" over the holy site, which is sacred to both Muslims and Jews.

An Islamic trust which administers Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound accused Israeli police Monday of blocking the installation of cameras there, a key measure agreed to defuse Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the holy site.

The Jordanian-run trust said a team was "working on the installation of cameras belonging to the Islamic Waqf... but the Israeli police interfered directly and stopped the work."

Fresh violence flared between Israelis and Palestinians Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to install more security cameras at the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound in a bid to defuse tensions.

In a spate of incidents in the occupied West Bank a Palestinian woman was shot dead while trying to knife Israeli border police and a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli man before fleeing, police said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an agreement to put 24-hour security cameras around Jerusalem's sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound was in Israel's interest.

In remarks relayed by his office Netanyahu said the cameras would serve "firstly, to refute the claim Israel is violating the status quo (and) secondly, to show where the provocations are really coming from, and prevent them in advance."

An Arab Israeli has crossed into Syria using a paraglider with the apparent goal of joining rebel fighters there, the Israeli army said on Sunday.

"A surveillance post identified an Israeli civilian entering Syrian territory using a paraglider" late on Saturday, an army statement read. 

A restaurant offering discounts to Jews and Arabs who share hummus and other such gestures have been portrayed as signs of hope -- but in reality, fear and anger dominate amid weeks of Israeli-Palestinian unrest.

As violence grips Jerusalem and other cities, a climate of suspicion has threatened even the most basic interactions between Jews and Israeli Arabs, not to mention Palestinians.