“The High Commissioner said that this crisis is risky in the extreme because it is a confrontation drawn in part from that most combustible of human emotional mechanisms: fear”, said United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric Wednesday at a daily briefing.
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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. It also said that a durable peace “based on a two-state solution can only be achieved if the two sides engage in serious negotiations”. As long as Palestinian leaders continue refusing to denounce the violence and insist on distorting realities on the ground, we fear the conflict will persist.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations Security Council to create a “special regime for global protection for the Palestinian people”.
Abbas accused Israel of carrying out “extrajudicial killings” during the latest round of violence.
Israeli and Jordanian officials said Tuesday that new surveillance cameras should be installed within days at the walled Jerusalem shrine at the epicenter of Israeli-Palestinian violence, with the goal of streaming the footage live on the Internet for maximum transparency.
A month ago, photographs obtained by Israeli police revealed that Palestinians were stockpiling rocks on the Temple Mount in advance of Jewish visits to the site during Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles.
Abbas also slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his allegation last week that a Palestinian leader was the mastermind behind the Holocaust, a claim that Germany firmly rejected.
Israeli medics and soldiers wheel on a stretcher a wounded Palestinian, suspected of stabbing an Israeli, in the West Bank city of Hebron October 9, 2015.
He said there was a “tightening the noose around the necks of the population” by successive Israeli governments to “systematically change the identity of Jerusalem and its historical and demographic character”.
Erdan, the internal security minister, slammed Ghattas’s visit.
He said the bodies would be buried in cemeteries reserved for attackers, “as has been done in the past”.
Wednesday’s incident took place in Hebron.
Late Tuesday evening, Hammam Said, 23, reportedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in Tel Rumeida and was shot dead by Israeli forces.
When an Arab citizen of Israel opened fire at a bus station in southern Israel recently, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding several people, a private security guard shot an Eritrean migrant he thought was an attacker.
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In mid-September 2015, Israeli police escorted dozens of radical Jews into the holy site to mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year, thus sparking off the current round of violence.
