Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) invites U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to take a seat for their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday described a wave of Palestinian knife and car-ramming attacks as terrorism that must be condemned as he held talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on how to end the violence.
The bloodshed has been fuelled by Muslim agitation over increased Jewish visits to East Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound - Islam's third holiest site and also revered by Jews as the location of two biblical-era temples.
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