Ban, who will step down at the end of 2016 after 10 years as UN chief, had told the UN Security Council that it is “human nature to react to occupation”.
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However, the Israeli army said that the two Israeli soldiers might have been killed in the gun battles between Hamas and the Israeli soldiers during the offensive.
Fueled by tensions over the halted peace talks, Palestinian attack have killed 26 Israelis and USA citizens.
TEL AVIV-Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized a French proposal to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state, calling it an incentive for the Palestinians not to compromise in negotiations to resolve their long-running conflict.
The restrictions also apply to foreigners, although United Nations officials, global NGOs and diplomatic staff were exempted.
While most recent attacks have been committed by individuals who didn’t appear to belong to armed groups or Palestinian Authority forces, the shooter in this instance was a Palestinian policeman.
Nabil Shaath, a top member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, slammed the partial closure as “collective punishment” of the entire city.
The Israeli military says it has partially closed off the main Palestinian city in the West Bank following a shooting attack near there the previous day.
Shortly after yesterday’s shooting, troops opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle driving at high speed towards soldiers at another West Bank checkpoint.
“A number of meetings have been called off because Palestinian interlocutors have not been able to get to the meeting site”, the diplomat added.
“The time has come for Israelis, Palestinians and the global community to read the writing on the wall: the status quo is untenable”, he wrote. At least 25 Israelis have been killed in attacks carried out by Palestinians.
In At Tur, near Al Maqassad hospital in East Jerusalem, one of several roadblocks, placed by Israeli forces in October 2015 in Palestinian neighbourhoods, as the wave of violence across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel continued.
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“Palestinian frustration and grievances are growing under the weight of almost a half-century of occupation”, Ban wrote. Soldiers responding to the attack on the scene shot and killed Sukkari.
