Several thousand mourners attended the funerals on Friday of two Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank, as further clashes took place between protesters and soldiers.

"We will sacrifice ourselves for you, o martyrs," mourners chanted as the bodies, draped in Palestinian flags, were taken through the streets of the West Bank town of Birzeit.

Turkey's prime minister shouted an anti-Israel slur as he was mobbed by angry protesters at the site of a deadly mine blast this week, local media reported Friday.

"Why are you running away, Israeli spawn?" Recep Tayyip Erdogan is heard yelling at a protester in video footage circulated by the opposition Sozcu newspaper, using an expression considered a curse in Turkish.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Friday that world powers must deny Iran any possibility of developing a nuclear weapon as the search for a deal intensifies.

"I think that, while the talks with Iran are going on, there is one thing that must guide the international community and that is not to let the ayatollahs win," Netanyahu's office quoted him as saying at the beginning of their meeting in Jerusalem.

Two Israeli soldiers have been dismissed from their unit for campaigning on Facebook against orders to evict Jewish settlers on the West Bank, the army said Thursday.

"Two soldiers who have confessed to having posted photographs of themselves calling for a refusal to obey orders have been dismissed from their unit,"  the army said in a statement.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday met with Israel's chief peace negotiator Tzipi Livni in London, just weeks after his relentless bid to broker a treaty with the Palestinians came screeching to a halt.

U.S. officials confirmed that the top American diplomat had begun surprise talks with Livni, as they took advantage of both being in London at the same time for different meetings.

Israel's defense minister said Thursday that the Jewish state and its U.S. ally should be prepared to use "all means" to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability.

"I believe that it should be in the first priority of each of us to deal with this threat by all means, in all fields," Moshe Yaalon told reporters after talks with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

Israeli troops shot and fatally wounded two Palestinians during a Nakba day demonstration near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, medics and security sources said.

Security and medical sources told Agence France Presse that Musaab Nuwarah, 20, and Mohammed Udeh, 17, died in a Ramallah hospital.

Only Palestinians and Israelis can decide whether to resume talks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Wednesday as he met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for the first time since the peace process collapsed.

The top U.S. diplomat told Abbas during almost two hours of talks in London that the fate of the peace process lies in the hands of the deeply-divided parties.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met late Wednesday in London with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for their first face-to-face talks since the peace process collapsed last month, U.S. officials said.

The two were meeting in an upscale hotel for what U.S. officials have billed as "informal" talks, seeking to downplay any hopes of a breakthrough in Kerry's ill-fated bid to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

The United States and Israel on Wednesday offered to help Turkey, which was reeling from a mine disaster which killed 245 workers.

"On behalf of the American people, we extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and our best wishes for the safe exit of the remaining miners," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.