Lebanese authorities have been informed that Belgium will withdraw its contingent from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, the peacekeeping mission's spokesperson, Andrea Tenenti, said.

Tenenti told An Nahar newspaper published on Tuesday that the UNIFIL leadership was first informed about Belgium's decision by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York.

Palestinians commemorated 10 years since the mysterious death of their iconic leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday but a war of words between rival factions Fatah and Hamas marred the anniversary.

The frictions blocked a rare memorial service for Arafat planned for Gaza, after Hamas said it could not provide security following a series of bomb blasts in the territory.

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti urged the Palestinian leadership to give its backing to "armed resistance" against Israel in a letter published Tuesday as a wave of violence surged.

The call came after months of clashes in and around annexed east Jerusalem and a growing number of deadly Palestinian attacks by lone individuals. 

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian during clashes in the West Bank on Tuesday as a wave of unrest gripped the country, raising fears of a new Palestinian uprising.

The death of the 22-year-old near Hebron came as troops tried to disperse about 150 Palestinians who were hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at passing cars close to the settlement of Kiryat Arba, the army said.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday voiced concern about escalating violence in the Israel-Palestinian conflict and urged progress toward a two-state solution.

"We need a Palestinian state living in peace and security next to the Israeli state," said Europe's top diplomat in Berlin, after recently visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories.

One Palestinian was killed and two others injured Tuesday when a fuel truck exploded at the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in southern Gaza, medics said.

"One worker was killed in the fuel area of Kerem Shalom and two others were injured, one seriously," emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Agence France Presse.

After days of clashes, the smell of teargas hangs heavy in the air in Kufr Kana, a hilltop Arab town simmering with resentment after Israeli police killed one of its own.

Although residents of this biblical town in Galilee are trying to resume some semblance of normal life, there is still a great deal of anger over Saturday's shooting of 22-year-old Kheir Hamdan during an apparently routine arrest.

An Israeli woman was killed and three others wounded Monday in two separate Palestinian knife attacks as months of unrest in Jerusalem spread across Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Monday's violence began in Tel Aviv where a Palestinian teenager from the northern West Bank stabbed a 20-year-old soldier, leaving him in critical condition. The assailant fled but was arrested.

Twenty-four Arab Israelis, 10 of them minors, appeared in court Monday on charges of rioting in Arab areas of northern Israel after police shot dead a young man.

Police said all of them had been arrested on Sunday and were in court for a hearing to decide whether their custody should be extended.

Two Gaza fishermen were wounded and four missing Monday after the Israeli navy fired on two boats off the coast, officials from the Hamas-run security services said. 

It was not immediately clear whether the four had been arrested, the officials added.