In a speech about USA foreign policy in the Middle East at the Carnegie Endowment for worldwide Peace in Washington, Kerry addressed a wide range of subjects, from the Iran nuclear deal to Islamic State, Tunisian democracy, and the ongoing surge of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
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On 25 October, a short distance from where al-Atrash was killed, Israeli border police shot dead Dania Jihad Hussein Ershied, 17. Israel TV reported that he had tried to stab soldiers and had been “neutralised”.
Israeli politicians have frequently blamed the latest spike in violence on incitement by Palestinian politicians including Abbas.
An American educator who marched for civil rights in the 1960s and advocated coexistence between Muslims and Jews when he moved to Israel in the 1980s died Tuesday after succumbing to wounds sustained in a Palestinian attack on a bus in Jerusalem two weeks ago.
“The excessive use of force by Israeli military and police, house demolitions and other collective punishments also can not be permitted to continue”, he warned.
Palestinian organisations say the bodies of 25 attackers have not been returned to families.
In a press release, the rights group stated it had documented at the very least 4 instances through which Palestinians had been intentionally shot dead with out posing an imminent menace, “in what seem to have been extrajudicial executions”.
“It is no longer useful to waste time in negotiations just for the sake of negotiations, what is required is the ending of the occupation in accordance with worldwide legitimacy”, he said. He did not elaborate.
“Israel wants cameras for its own purposes and this will not happen”, he said.
Mogherini, who has met with both Abbas and Netanyahu these last days, said she hopes to bring the Mideast Quartet (US, EU, United Nations and Russia) representatives to the region to establish trust-building steps.
And an Israeli Jew and an Eritrean were also been killed after being mistaken for attackers.
Netanyahu’s allegations manipulated the sentiments of Jews about “the most horrendous crime known in modern history committed by the Nazis”, he said. “Every martyr will be in heaven and every wounded person will be rewarded by Allah’s will”, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in September, adding that Palestinians’ “hands are with who are protecting Al-Aqsa mosque”. “You all know that this is totally false. It is untrue and baseless”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Tuesday to contain inflammatory rhetoric from his government over Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, at the heart of a wave of deadly Palestinian unrest.
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In the meantime, however, the New Zealand proposal has eclipsed an idea bandied about informally by the French – and then apparently buried following opposition by Israel, the United States and Jordan – to bring a resolution to the Security Council calling for the placement of worldwide observers on the Temple Mount.
