The Israelis behaved in an aggressive and insulting manner toward the Palestinians who were harassed by Israeli soldiers patrolling the street.
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Mr McCully said New Zealand would circulate a draft resolution calling for an end to the violence.
Hours after the announcements, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier in the West Bank, before being shot and wounded by other troops, the Israeli military said, part of a wave of violence that has killed around 60 people. The violence was initially confined to traditionally Arab east Jerusalem but soon spread deep into Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
However, you still decline to mention that numerous Israelis were wounded and are in critical condition due to these terrorist attacks.
With Israelis and Palestinians caught in another widening cycle of bloodshed, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday in Berlin and urged him to tone down the harsh language that US and European officials believe is fueling the violence.
The Yizhar settlement where Noor was shot overnight has gained notoriety among both Israelis and Palestinians as a bastion of extremists and its Israeli residents regularly carry out attacks on Palestinians and their property.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief says envoys from the United States, the EU, Russian Federation and the United Nations will meet Friday to try to bring an end to a monthlong spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
On Friday, an Israeli police spokesman said the decision to lift the age restrictions follows a security assessment. Kerry is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan this weekend.
On Wednesday night, Israeli forces arrested over 70 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a local Palestinian NGO said Thursday.
For weeks, Israelis have been terrorized by frighteningly random assaults – often by young, knife-wielding Palestinians – that were spurred at least partly by social media and suspicions that Israel is plotting to interfere with Muslim privileges at a holy site in Jerusalem also revered by Jews.
Mr Netanyahu repeated earlier accusations that Mr Abbas was to blame, saying the Palestinian leader was “spreading lies” about Israel and the status of the holy site at the centre of the tensions.
Since October 1, 52 Palestinians – including suspected attackers, unarmed demonstrators and bystanders – have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers, while eight Israelis have been killed.
A crane lowered the concrete blocks onto a street in the West Bank city of Bethlehem outside Rachel’s Tomb on Thursday.
One Israeli Jew and one Eritrean have also been killed after being mistaken for attackers.
Police said the soldiers had grown suspicious when the man, speaking in Hebrew, asked to see their IDs and proclaimed, “I am ISIS”, referring to the Islamic State militant group.
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Foreign Minister Murray McCully has told the Security Council it has to take responsibility for the failure of diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict.
