“President Abbas spoke more despairingly, my friends, than I have ever heard him about the sense of hopelessness that the Palestinian people feel”, Kerry, who traveled to the region last month, said in a speech at the Brookings Institution.
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‘The terrorist, apparently a 21-year-old resident of east Jerusalem, was killed by the gunfire, ‘ the statement said.
The Israeli was evacuated to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem for medical treatment in critical condition.
Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said Israeli Border Police shot the Palestinian after he stabbed an Israeli man in his 40s. A Border Police force opened fire and the attacker was killed. The terrorist who stabbed four Israelis in the town of Kiryat Gat on November 28 reportedly came through the fence.
On Sunday evening, a Palestinian assailant drove his auto into an Israeli pedestrian in the Romema neighborhood before exiting the vehicle and stabbing a policeman, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The only shared city in the West Bank, Hebron has seen constant friction between the community of several hundred settlers and the much larger Palestinian population.
He said the Israeli campaign includes traditional advertising, partnerships with Russian tour operators and bringing Russian celebrities to Israel to “spread the word”.
Israel accuses Palestinian political and religious leaders of inciting the violence. Almost 600,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 war.
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Donald Trump evaded specific questions about whether Palestinian demands in peace negotiations are legitimate and whether Israel should be allowed to build settlements in the West Bank without restrictions, though he said the Israeli housing projects were a “huge sticking point” in talks.
