A Palestinian has stabbed an Israeli man to death at a bus stop near a West Bank settlement before fleeing the scene, officials said.

Escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the Holy Land's most contested shrine boiled over into violence on Friday that killed six people, three Palestinians in street clashes in Jerusalem and three Israelis in a stabbing attack at a West Bank settlement.

Ground has been broken in the West Bank for the first new Israeli settlement in two decades to compensate for an outpost demolished earlier this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

A new Israeli law legalising dozens of unlawful West Bank settler outposts crossed a "very thick red line", the United Nations' Middle East envoy has said.

Israel's parliament has passed a contentious law meant to retroactively legalise thousands of West Bank settlement homes built unlawfully on private Palestinian land.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to build a new West Bank settlement "as soon as possible" following the demolition of an illegally-built settler outpost.

Unarmed police in blue sweatshirts and black baseball caps made their way up the hill at Amona at about midday on Wednesday. .

Israel’s military has ordered residents of a West Bank settlement to evacuate the area within 48 hours, days before a deadline for its demolition that threatens to destabilise the government.

An Israeli advocacy group has criticised what it called an "exceptionally low" prosecution rate by the Israeli military in cases of violence committed by soldiers against Palestinians.

Israel has approved plans for hundreds of new housing units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, according to reports, prompting a swift condemnation from the White House.

Israel is pushing forward with the construction of dozens of homes in a Jewish West Bank settlement.

A Palestinian has stabbed an Israeli teenager to death in her bedroom in the West Bank before he was shot dead, the Israeli army and a Jerusalem hospital said.

A bronze statue of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Germany is urging Israel to reverse the seizure of land in the West Bank.

Israeli officials have launched an investigation into a border police officer who was filmed tipping over a Palestinian in a wheelchair in the West Bank.

An Israeli woman has died of injuries she suffered in a Palestinian stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement, according to a Jerusalem hospital.

Israeli troops have shot a Palestinian woman after she allegedly attempted to stab a pedestrian in the West Bank.

Israel announced plans to build a new fence near the flashpoint city of Hebron as two Palestinians were shot and killed in separate incidents in the West Bank.

Two attacks by Palestinians, including a stabbing at an office building in Tel Aviv, have killed five people, intensifying a two month-long wave of violence.

A Palestinian man shot and killed two Israelis and wounded a teenager as they were driving in the West Bank.

Relations between the European Union and Israel have taken a dive after Jerusalem condemned a decision of the 28-nation bloc to specially label products made in West Bank settlements.

A Palestinian attacker rammed his vehicle into a group of Israelis standing at a hitchhiking station in the West Bank, wounding four of them before he was shot dead by paramilitary officers, Israeli police said.

A Palestinian has rammed his vehicle into an Israeli police officer in the West Bank, seriously injuring him before he was shot and killed, police said.

Israeli forces have shot and killed two Palestinians, including one who stabbed a soldier, in the latest in a string of clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron.

A Palestinian who tried to stab an Israeli soldier near a sensitive holy site in the West Bank city of Hebron has been shot, the Israeli army said.

Violence has flared up again between Israelis and Palestinians despite new efforts to ease tensions.

A Palestinian man's been shot dead in the latest in a wave of knife attacks on the West Bank.

A Palestinian assailant shot and killed two parents driving with their four children along a West Bank road, the Israeli military said, amid mounting unrest surrounding a Jerusalem site holy to both Muslims and Jews.

A Palestinian witness has disputed the Israeli army’s account of a fatal shooting in the West Bank.

Suspected Jewish attackers torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, killing an 18-month-old toddler and injuring three family members. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, described it as terrorism.

Palestinian Authority forces arrested 100 Hamas members in the West Bank in the biggest raid of its kind in years.

A 22-year-old Palestinian man died after being hit by an Israeli army jeep amid clashes in the West Bank.