Clashes are escalating in East Jerusalem and the West Bank between Israeli forces and Palestinians after a settler was killed in the West Bank and Israeli soldiers killed a man suspected of the murder. Israel responded shutting off access to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for the first time since 1967, though it may re-open today. Palestinian officials consider Israel's closing of one of the holiest of Muslim sites tantamount to an act of war. teleSUR