A Palestinian teenage girl tried to stab an Israeli guard at a West Bank settlement today but was shot dead, police said, in the third settlement attack in a week.

Palestinian teenagers have carried out numerous stabbings or attempted stabbings, and in one case an assailant was as young as 12.

She said there had been no trouble before her daughter left the family home, a tent in the Palestinian village of Anata.

The fourth Palestinian was Bilal Ghanem, who together with another Palestinian is accused of shooting and stabbing passengers on a bus on October 13.

Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 war, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories the Palestinians want for their hoped-for state.

In a development likely to further upset Europe, Israeli forces demolished six structures in the West Bank funded by the EU's humanitarian arm.

Hebron is a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with several hundred Jewish settlers living in the heart of the city under heavy military guard among around 200,000 Palestinians.

The 17-year-old victim, identified as Mohammad Nabil Halabiya, was killed in the town of Abu Dis on Saturday night as the bomb he was reportedly holding in his hands exploded.

Separately, the Defense Ministry confirmed in an email to Reuters Thursday that it planned to seize 380 acres in the West Bank, close to Jordan and the Palestinian city of Jericho.

"Even if she had a knife, it should have been possible to arrest a girl of that age", he said.

Lamenting what it called "unfair rebukes" from Netanyahu and his right-wing government - which culminated in a former aide to Netanyahu calling Shapiro a "Jewboy" - the Times wrote that the ambassador had correctly questioned Israel's commitment to the two-state solution and legal response to settler violence against Palestinians.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon's order to evict the settler families last week caused a storm of condemnations from right wing parties.

"There are people who want them to go, this is not acceptable".

The Chinese head of state considered the issue of Palestine to be crucial to peace in the Middle East, and urged the worldwide community to contribute to the resumption of Israel-Palestinian talks, which have been broken off due to Tel Aviv's refusal to put a hold on its expansion of illegal settlements.

Hours later, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came out against Palestinian groups he said were encouraging youth to take part in an nearly four-month long surge of violence with Israel which has raised concern of wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided.