“The events of recent weeks cry out for council action”, said McCully.
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He raised the possibility of another draft resolution setting out the parameters of a peace deal early next year.
Britain’s United Nations Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told reporters Wednesday that Ban’s closed video briefing and a ministerial meeting of the council on the Middle East Thursday will be focused on what the council can do on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Fact: The IOF has intensified incursions and attacks at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by allowing terrorist settlers free reign to storm the holy site in attempts to change the historic status quo.
Malki demanded that Israel explain its claim that the “status quo” at the site is unchanged.
We, organizations and individuals that make up the majority of the Palestinian cultural sector; musicians, circus artists, actors, and dancers, call upon our fellow cultural workers and organizations around the world to condemn Israel’s deliberate and systematic policies of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid against the Palestinian people.
Over the past month, Israel has been dealing with a wave of Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings. Direct negotiations are inherently asymmetrical as Palestine is under Israel’s occupation.
Federica Mogherini says that the grouping of Mideast mediators known as the Quartet will urge Israelis and Palestinians to calm the situation.
Ban said he haqd been urging both sides to “tell their people correctly that there should be no killings”. “Israel’s security forces have no limits when it comes to defending Israelis”, said Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, on 5 October. The military said he was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
But Rycroft said he expected no concrete action to emerge from a Security Council debate on the Middle East on Thursday.
Yesterday five Palestinians were shot dead and not so much as a a paragraph in the World Briefing to inform readers of this latest carnage by Israeli troops. The Palestinians say the violence is rooted in decades of occupation and tensions around a sensitive Jerusalem religious site. This includes the burning of teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the arson attack of the Dawabsheh family home, and the mounting executions of Palestinian civilians, including children and youths by the IOF with live fire. “The entire Palestinian people is the enemy…in wars the enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure”, said Ayelet Shaked, Israeli justice minister, on 7 July 2014.
Shortly before he spoke, Israeli police said forces shot and killed a Palestinian who stabbed a female soldier in the neck. Two others were wounded.
Most of the Palestinian attackers in the wave of violence that has gripped the region have had no known links to militant groups.
Fact: The Palestinian Government has repeatedly affirmed that it supports peaceful and legal means to end the illegal Israeli occupation. He claimed the image was used to teach in Palestinian schools.
The incident brings the number of Palestinians killed since a monthlong round of violence broke out to 48, among them 27 identified by Israel as attackers. The others were killed in clashes with Israeli security forces. Ten Israelis have been killed in attacks.
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An inquiry is underway after an Israeli man in his 50s was killed in a rpad accident, also in Hebron. The Eritrean later died. Police said the soldier, who was originally reported to have been lightly wounded, was in critical condition.
