OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three people and wounded several others in a string of attacks in occupied Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv Tuesday, on a “Day of Rage” declared by Palestinian groups. Three Palestinians, including two attackers, were also killed. With the worst unrest in years in Israel and the Palestinian territories showing no sign of abating, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency meeting of his security Cabinet to discuss what police said would be new operational plans. “We will use, and not hesitate to use, all means at our disposal to restore calm,” Netanyahu said in a speech to parliament.

Officials said Israel was considering whether to seal off Palestinian districts in occupied East Jerusalem – home of many of the assailants of the past two weeks – from the rest of the city.

In Jerusalem, two Palestinians shot and stabbed passengers on a bus, killing two and injuring four, police said. One of the assailants was killed and the other captured. Minutes later, a Palestinian rammed his car into a bus stop in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of the city, police said. A surveillance video showed him then hacking pedestrians with a cleaver until he was shot dead by a passer-by. One of the Israelis he attacked died and six others were hurt, police said.

In clashes near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the Israeli army shot dead a Palestinian, medics said.

Seven Israelis and 29 Palestinians, including 10 alleged attackers and eight children, have died in the surge of violence. The Obama administration, whose efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal stalled last year, voiced alarm.

“No matter who it is, this violence, and any incitement to violence, has got to stop,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said, adding that “the situation is simply too volatile, too dangerous, and it is not going to lead to the outcome that people want, which is to have a peaceful resolution of differences.”

The violence has been stirred in part by Palestinian agitation over Israelis’ increasing visits to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. While disavowing the violence, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for Al-Aqsa to be “defended” from Israel, and his administration has echoed allegations swirling around Arabic social media that some of the Palestinians killed by police had been summarily executed.

“Stop lying. Stop inciting,” Netanyahu said in remarks addressed to Abbas during a speech in the Israeli parliament. “If the situation deteriorates as a result of this incitement ... you will bear responsibility.”

With Israelis increasingly afraid, merchants reported that pepper spray for self-defense was selling out.

“We don’t know what to do, or where to walk,” Avi Shemesh, a witness to the first attack, told reporters. “They are Israel-haters and they need to be eliminated.”

In Raanana, just north of Tel Aviv, a Palestinian man stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli on a shopping street during the morning rush hour, officials and witnesses said.

Amateur video distributed by police showed several men kicking and beating the alleged assailant as he lay on the ground. Israeli paramedics said he had been seriously hurt.Within an hour, another Palestinian stabbed and wounded four people in Raanana before being arrested, police said. And in northern Israel, an Israeli man, who police said had intended to carry out a revenge attack, stabbed and wounded a fellow Israeli, mistaking him for a Palestinian.

The main Palestinian factions, Abbas’ Fatah movement and the Islamist militant Hamas group, had declared Tuesday a “Day of Rage” across the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Leaders of Israel’s 1948 Palestinian minority called for a commercial strike in their towns, one of which, Sakhnin, hosted a pro-Palestinian rally attended by thousands of people Tuesday.

Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to carry out a “serious review” on whether its security forces are resorting to excessive force in clashes with Palestinians.

Ban finds “the apparent excessive use of force by Israeli security forces” to be “troubling,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.