Most Palestinians would favor resuming rocket fire at Israel if it does not lift its Gaza blockade, although support for armed confrontation is dropping off, according to a poll published Monday.

"An overwhelming majority of 80% supports the launching of rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel if the siege and blockade are not ended," said the survey of 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).

Israeli police said they detained on Monday an Arab Israeli suspected of supporting the Islamic State group, in one of Tel Aviv's first arrests related to the jihadist organization.

The 24-year-old from the village of Kafr Kara, in northern Israel, was picked up near Tel Aviv, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told Agence France-Presse, without naming him.

Israeli police are to deploy in extra strength in mixed Jewish-Muslim areas on Saturday, fearful of trouble as the two faiths mark major holy days, police said.

In a rare concurrence of the calendars of the two religions, this year the main Islamic feast of Eid el-Adha falls on the same day as the solemn Jewish fast of Yom Kippur.

Israeli troops shot and wounded a 14-year-old boy in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday in the second such incident in 24 hours, medics said.

The boy suffered injuries to his foot after coming under fire in his village close to the border, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to boost cooperation Sunday in the most substantive interaction between the two countries' leaders in 11 years.

The two prime ministers both appeared upbeat as they met at a New York hotel on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, where Modi is making his first visit since he led his Hindu nationalists to a sweeping victory in April-May elections.

About 25 percent of new Israeli houses being built in Jerusalem in the first half of 2014 were in the city's annexed east, an Israeli NGO said on Sunday.

Jerusalem city council published a statement saying that between January 1 and June 30 work began on 2,100 homes in the city.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to New York on Sunday, vowing to expose "slander and lies" laid out by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in his UN speech.

In a Friday address to the U.N. General Assembly, Abbas accused Israel of carrying out a "genocidal crime" in its 50-day war against Gaza militants in which nearly 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed.

Palestinian teenagers taunt riot police at a barricade in east Jerusalem, just moments after stun grenades fired by Israeli security forces send stone-throwing youths scattering.

The arrests and alleged mistreatment of hundreds of young Palestinians have deepened anger in Arab parts of the Holy City following the killing of a 16-year-old by Jewish extremists in July.

A resolution proposed by Arab states expressing concern about Israel's nuclear arsenal was defeated on Thursday at a meeting of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The measure, brought by 18 Arab member states, was rejected by 58 votes to 45, with 27 countries abstaining at the annual general conference.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his finance minister patched up a very public budgetary rift on Wednesday, agreeing to boost defense spending, after a bloody and costly Gaza war.

Netanyahu's office said the defense ministry would get $1.9 billion-$2.2  billion (1.5 billion-1.7 billion euros) to defray costs from the 50-day air, sea and land offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza and an extra $1.6 billion in next year's budget, for a total $15.6 billion.