RAMALLAH (Reuters/AFP) - The Western-backed Palestinian government pledged on Monday to confront Israel as Israeli troops clashed with protesters for a second day in the Jerusalem area. Youths hurled rocks at policemen and burned cardboard cartons and trash in the streets of Shuafat in Arab East Jerusalem, after Israel arrested a teenager it suspects stabbed and wounded a soldier conducting a security check on a bus.One policeman was injured by a rock and seven protesters were arrested. Nine Palestinians and two Israeli policemen were treated for minor injuries in scuffles that erupted in Jerusalem on Sunday, and 30 were hurt in similar clashes a week ago. The Palestinian cabinet, issuing a strong statement after a meeting in the West Bank town of Ramallah, called on Palestinians to confront Israel and its plans, and accused the Jewish state of seeking to deny Palestinians a goal of achieving statehood in land Israel captured in a 1967 war. The Palestinian statement also took aim at controversy over Jerusalem, and condemned what it called a plan by Jews to perform religious rituals in a compound containing the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islams third holiest site. It further asked the world to force it (Israel) to put off its attempts to take over Jerusalem and Judaise it. Meanwhile, a Peace Now report said on Monday that some 800 new housing units are being built in settlements across the occupied West Bank, despite US calls for Israel to freeze settlement construction. The Israeli settlement watchdog said that work got underway over the past three months in 34 settlements for the construction of the units.