The Palestinians on Friday rejected US allegations of incitement after a day of clashes and attacks left three Palestinians dead and 16 Israelis wounded. They instead linked the violence to President Donald Trumps Middle East peace initiative, which heavily favors Israel on all the most contentious issues of the conflict and would allow it to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank. “Those who introduce plans for annexation and apartheid and the legalization of occupation and settlements are the ones who bear full responsibility for deepening the cycle of violence and extremism,” senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said in a statement. He was responding to remarks delivered the day before by Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law and the architect of the Middle East blueprint, who had blamed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the latest violence. Erekat said Abbas will soon bring a “genuine” peace plan to the Security Council, one that he said is rooted in international law and based on a two-state solution along the 1967 lines. A funeral was held on Friday in the West Bank village of Azzun for a Palestinian police officer who was shot dead in Jenin the previous day. Palestinian authorities said he was killed by Israeli gunfire. Israeli officials did not comment, and Israeli media reported he was shot by troops by mistake. The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories seized by Israel in the 1967 war. They view Israels settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — which are home to some 700,000 people — as a major obstacle to peace. Most of the international community views the settlements as illegal. The Trump plan would allow Israel to annex all its settlements as well as the strategic Jordan Valley. It would give the Palestinians limited autonomy in several scattered chunks of territory with a capital on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but only if they meet nearly impossible conditions. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has eagerly embraced the plan. The Palestinians have adamantly rejected it, but Abbas has not called for violence. Abbas has threatened to cut off security coordination in response to the Trump plan, but is not believed to have done so. Palestinians have long boycotted relations with the Trump administration, which they view as biased against them.