“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”, said Zeid.
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“Palestinian terrorist shot and killed”, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld added on Twitter. Unlike their brethren in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians in East Jerusalem receive Israeli social benefits and can move freely in Israel.
A recent poll released on Tuesday by the Israeli Midgam Institute showed that 58% of Israeli’s back canceling the resident status and its accompanying rights for Arab residents of east Jerusalem.
At the same time, Kerry called for action by both sides to prevent a further escalation of violence. If such fears are not checked, he said, they “become in time so raw, so stark [that] many considerations of humanity will become secondary”.
Clashes erupted at the holy site in September as an increase in Jewish visitors to the site alarmed Palestinians who fear Israel is seeking to change rules which now forbid Jews from praying at the compound.
Only Muslims are allowed to pray within the compound, while non-Muslims can visit but not pray there.
The current wave of violence in the region was sparked by protests last month against restrictions on Palestinian entry to the site, which were announced amid a series of Jewish holidays. It said police detained a Palestinian woman near the Old City of Jerusalem’s Bab Hatta (Hatta Gate). “The blockade of Gaza must be ended”.
“President Abbas chose once more the way of propaganda and incitement instead of the dialogue proposed by Israel”, said the foreign ministry.
“For Palestinians, increasing Jewish interest in and presence on the [Al-Aqsa] esplanade portends the too familiar”, read a June report released by the global Crisis Group, which specialises in political analysis. Roughly one-third of the city’s Palestinian population, about 100,000 people, live outside the barrier.
The Palestinian leader described recent events as “the inevitable outcome of what we had previously warned of, including violations and crimes we previously reported, as well as the failure of the global community to redress this injustice and distress suffered by our people, most particularly our youth”. Numerous Palestinian attacks on Israelis are now occurring in the West Bank, rather than in Jerusalem where they started. This, he said, called for “strong and decisive intervention” by the United Nations “to set up a special regime for worldwide protection for the Palestinian people, immediately and urgently”.
Abbas said that peace and stability could not be achieved unless “occupation ended and Palestinians achieved independence”.
“We want your protection”.
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Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Abbas deplored Netanyahu’s comments a week earlier referring to Nazi sympathizer Haj Amin al-Husseini, a former grand mufti of Jerusalem.
