US Vice-President Joe Biden said on Monday that Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership is moving in “the wrong direction,” adding that he felt “overwhelming frustration” with the Israeli government. The remarks were made at the gala of the Israel-lobby J Street, a relatively new US lobby organization that is frequently critical of Netanyahu.

“I firmly believe that the action Israel’s government has taken over the past several years — the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures — they’re moving us, and more important, they’re moving Israel, in the wrong direction,” Biden said. “They’re moving us toward a one-state reality, and that reality is dangerous.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry, who also spoke at the gala, said that the United States will continue pushing hard for the two-state solution as any other scenario would be “neither Jewish nor democratic.”

Israeli policemen and border policemen arrested a Palestinian minor in the a-Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem after he throwed rocks in their direction, the police said.

There were no casualties and no damage in the incident. The Palestinian was taken for questioning.

The Jerusalem District Court convicted Yosef Chaim Ben David on Tuesday morning of kidnapping and murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014.

Ben David, 29 years old from the community of Adam, was the central suspect of committing the murder, and his verdict was delayed to determine his mental state.

His two nephews, 16 and 17 years old, were convicted in January of helping commit the murder. One received a life sentence, while the other minor was sentenced to 21 years in prison after the court ruled that he played a smaller part in the murder.

Twelve Israelis wounded in Monday’s bus terrorist attack are still hospitalized in Jerusalem medical centers, one of whom is seriously wounded with danger to his life.

Six victims are at Shaare Zedek hospital. One man suffered serious combined burns and limb injuries and is still anesthetized and under artificial respiration in unstable condition. Two others are in moderate and stable condition after undergoing surgery, and three people are lightly wounded.

At Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, four victims are in moderate to serious condition, while two others are in light condition.

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour recently stated that Jordan would be abandoning its plan to install security cameras on the Temple Mount.

The announcement was made against the backdrop of threats from many Palestinians to destroy the security cameras following their installation.

Although the security cameras were to be installed in order as a prevention measure of “recurring assaults” on the Temple Mount such as prayer by Israeli Jews on the site, Palestinian objections centered around concerns that Israel would use the security cameras to investigate incidents of incitement.