Violence between Israelis and Palestinian is turning into a catastrophe, the United Nations’ top human rights official said Wednesday.
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Abbas repeated his charge that Israel was carrying out summary executions of “innocent” Palestinians and imposing collective punishment on entire Palestinian communities.
“We can not continue to be bound unilaterally to agreements signed with Israel”.
The past month has seen near daily Palestinian terror attacks against Israeli citizens and soldiers and regular, often-deadly clashes between Palestinians and IDF troops in the West Bank.
Abbas did not specify the terms of the requested protection system, but warned that action, not words, was necessary to stem the tide of violence in the region.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Wednesday for an worldwide “special regime” to protect Palestinians amid what he described as the “worst and most critical” situation under Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories, including occupied East Jerusalem, since 1948.
His speech was greeted by a standing ovation from a few delegates at the meeting, while others representing countries like Germany remained seated.
Clashes erupted in September as an increase in Jewish visitors to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound alarmed Palestinians, who fear Israel is seeking to change rules that forbid Jews from praying there.
Errab Foqoha, the spokesman for the al-Bireh-based PRCS, said a total of 143 Palestinians were injured during Tuesday skirmishes in the West Bank. “In the context of suspected attacks, several Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces, sometimes allegedly acting with disproportionate force, to the extent that extra-judicial killings are strongly suspected”, he continued at the special meeting convened on the occasion of the Palestinian President’s visit. Last week, an Israeli Jew was killed after soldiers thought he was a Palestinian attacker and earlier this month an Israeli man stabbed a Jew after mistaking his dark-skinned victim for an Arab.
He called on Israeli leaders to press forward with a two-state solution and ripped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for trying to link Palestinians to the Holocaust. “You all know that this is false, untrue and baseless”.
Netanyahu has criticized Abbas for inciting the recent violence and for failing to condemn Palestinian terrorism.
The mosque compound is in a mostly Palestinian area that was captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War, and is a powder-keg for tensions in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Three Palestinians have been shot dead after attacking Israeli troopers with knives within the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the army stated, and an American-Israeli wounded in an assault two weeks in the past died of his accidents, an Israeli hospital stated.
The channel, citing Israel’s Justice Ministry, reported the woman was mentally unstable and suicidal and carried the knife with her into the bus station so that she could be shot and killed by Israeli forces.
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Amnesty global said on Tuesday that it has found a few of the killings of Palestinians have been unjustified and that Israeli forces were using “extreme and unlawful measures”.
