Call between Jake Sullivan and Israeli counterpart Tzachi Hanegbi follows diplomatic setbacks over Israel’s regional integration and escalating tensions with Palestinians in the West Bank

Ashaq al-Ajlouni, 17, from East Jerusalem shot at Israeli forces with an M-16 at the Qalandiyah checkpoint near Jerusalem

Druze demonstrators call for equality at a Haifa rally as key protest leader in Tel Aviv decries recent West Bank settler riots: 'Jewish supremacy is fascism and Jewish pogroms are pogroms'

Over 100 settlers rioted in the town near Ramallah under the protection of Israeli soldiers, the town's mayor told Haaretz. The attack was condemned by Germany's ambassador to Israel who said he was 'shocked by another outbreak of settler violence'

Sources told Haaretz that although his commanders knew the soldier is a well-known figure among extremist settlers known as the 'hilltop youth,' nothing was done to prevent him from accessing sensitive information

This week alone, mobs of settlers rampaged through five Palestinian towns and torched homes and property, sometimes in the presence of Israeli soldiers who stood by, leading representatives from 20 countries to visit the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya over the weekend

The Israel Defense Forces' Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi, Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai denounced the string of settler attacks on Palestinian villages and said they plan to step up efforts against them